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Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1914)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 272

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sus- ll ^ fi 11 pended from it by a thread, is thrown out- ward by centrifugal action ; and when thethread touches one of the fixed verticalwires at the side of the clock, the momen-tum of the spherical weight causes it towind the thread around the vertical wireand stop the arm and spindle. As… … 270 HOROLOGICAL, TIME DEVICES, ETC. the thread winds and unwinds once more, when the arm is released, andmakes a half revolution, when the thread is wound on the other verticalwire, and the operation just described is repeated. 705. SELF-WINDING, SYNCHRONIZING CLOCK. O, P,electric motors operated…

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