Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 129
ere made to clasp the outside of the dial of the timepiece in such aposition that a wire depending from the alarm case was moved bythe hand at the hour it was desired the alarm should be discharged. These timepieces must have been exceedingly useful before theadvent of lucifer matches, when… … Fig. III. Portable Tiuichccpcrs. 115 astronomers, regard seems to liave been more generally paid to theeffectiveness of the exterior as a whole rather than to its fitness and
Clocks and watches · Clock and watch makers
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