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 294
rather unusual.In the Wetherfield collection are no fewer than eighteen Tompionclocks. Some of these and others I propose to illustrate inChapter VII. The Royal Society possesses a paper in Hookes handwriting,imperfect and undated, showing that Tompion and Hooke were incommunication on the subject… … Fig. 419. 28o Old Clocks and WatcJics and their Makers. 20 Hookes Papers, and is headed Aerostatick Instruments.In it Hooke states that a form of his barometer, in which the heightof the mercury was indicated by a column of water, was tryed atMr. Thomas Tompions, a person deservedly famous for his…
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