A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 115

An illustration from A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations, 1907, leaf 115 — the altar, thenin tabernacles of elaborate construction. G 2 84 GLOSSARY CLOCKS AND WATCHES.Wall-Cases 21-4, Table-Cases G- and K. The earliest clocks worked by means of weights, and at what-ever date they may have been invented, were certainly in existencein the fourteenth century. But these were… … Fig. ■Horizontal striking-clocks, German, sixteenth century. clocks, one of the fourteenth century from Dover Castle, maybe seen in the collection of scientific instruments at SouthKensington. In order to make a time-piece portable, it was necessary toprovide some less cumbrous motor than heavy…

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