The colonial furniture of New England : A study of the domestic furniture in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (1892)
Lyon, Irving Whitall, 1840-1896 · Boston, New York : Houghton, Mifflin · leaf 468
ited extent, all through the eighteenth century.It is well known that clocks with wooden wheelswere made in Europe in the seventeenth and eight-eenth centuries. John Harrison, of Barrow, Eng-land, who invented in 1726 the compound or grid-iron pendulum, made clocks with wooden wheels.One of his… … Fig. 113 A FRENCH CLOCK Time of louis xvi CLOCKS 263 Clocks with wooden works, made by BenjaminCheney, of Hartford, Conn., are well known, which,from the period of this maker, the histories accom-panying them, and especially from the older style oftheir dials, could not have been made much…
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