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 348
g, kept Records of Early Makers, etc. 333 time within a few seconds during several weeks. Mudge showedthis escapement to Berthoud, when he was in London in 1766, buthe did not think so favourably of it as Margetts, Emery, and otherEnglish horologists did. In 1765 he published Thoughts on the Means… … Fig. 455.—Thomas Mudge, 1715—1794. quitted London, and went to reside at Plymouth, where he devotedhimself to the construction of chronometers. The first one wassent to Greenwich Observatory in 1774, and afterwards to BaronZach (who was astronomer to the Duke of Gotha), and lastly toAdmiral…
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