Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 835
iscontained within a barrel or circular box, which acts by means of a chain upon the fusee which carriesthe great-wheel, as already explained. Upon the axis of the centre-wdieel, between the upper plateand the dial, is fixed the pinion Q; and this drives the wheel T. Upon the spindle of this wheel… … It is seen, then, that in the watch, as in the clock, the moving power acts on a wheel which drives apinion ; that this pinion carries on its axis a wheel, which drives another pinion carrying another wheel;and so on. Hence there is a continual increase of velocity, and at the same time a loss of…
Mechanical engineering
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