Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 832
ied round by friction, so long as there is no opposing resistance. When we set the watch, however, thecentral axis remains unmoved, and we merely turn round the hollow spindle which carries the minute-hand and the pinion. This pinion acts upon the wheel x, which, through the pinion m and the wheel… … 82G WATCHMAKING. ^f watch, or by the action of the key in setting it. If the fiiceof any ordinary watch 1 e examined, lher(will be seen a small round spindle projecting in the centre. This is the spindle of the centre-wheelInclosing this is the first hoUow spindle, which carries the minute-hand,…
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