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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 342

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seconds arbor is in the centre of the Records of Early Makers, etc. 327 watch, and is driven by the seconds wheel below the contratewheel. The projections P P on the barrel of the reniontoire areto prevent the remontoire running down. Fig. 4 shows the pallets, which, instead of forming an angle… … Fig. 453.—Harrisons Remontoire Escapement. During William Harrisons voyages, the rate of the watch couldnot of course be checked daily for want of some means of com-parison, and so in May, 1766, the Board of Longitude placed theinstrument at the Greenwich Observatory in the hands of Dr.Maskelyne,…

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