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 333
an two hours after they were set going, one of them, calledNo. I, always stopped. As it had always kept going with greatfreedom before the other regulator. No. 2, was placed near it, Ellicottconceived its stopping must be owang to some influence the motionof one of the pendulums had upon the other;… … Fig. 447.—John Ellicott, 1706—T772. other had not been near it, and more than it moved in a shorttime after the other pendulum came to rest. On this he stoppedthe pendulum of No. 2, and set No. i going, the pendulum describ-ing as large an arc as the case would admit, viz. about 5°; he pre-sently…
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