Hood, Grant · Kansas City, Mo. : Kansas City Jeweler and Optician · leaf 43
Figure i. B less that wasted by friction, a force ever present and one thewatchmaker tries in so many ways to overcome. In a Compound train, the kind used in watches and clocks,the first wheel transmits its power to a pinion following it;upon this pinion is staked a wheel, which in turn… … Figure 2. power is transmitted to the end of the train. Each wheel re-volves more rapidly than the one before it, and the powergrows less and less until a very small amount of power isreuired to counteract all of that exerted at the beginning ofthe train; while we gain in speed, we lose in power,…
Clocks and watches
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