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 356
ggedin his manner. There, are, however, but few details of his life to beobtained. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker when fourteen years Records of Early Makers, etc. ^41 of age, and seems to have come to London inmiediately on completionof his indentures. After working for some time as a finisher… … Fig. 461.—Thomas Earnshaw, 1749—1829. family out of his earnings seems to have hampered him considerablyin carrying out his projects. To improve the chronometer escapement he, in 17S1, conceivedthe idea of substituting a spring detent for the pi\oted form asapplied by Le Roy and other French…
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