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 302
d by its simplicity. Asalready stated, his later years were chiefly occupied with astro-nomical work, which he carried on as the valued coadjutor ofHalley and Bradley till his death, which occurred in November,1751. By his will, executed in 1747, he left to his wife one-half of Records of Early… … Fig. 424. Tompion, in Westminster Abbey, was opened to receive his pupil,and the exceptional honour of their interment in that place is thebest testimony that can be adduced as to the estimation in whichthese eminent horologists were held. Appended is a reduced facsimile 288 Old Clocks and Watches…
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