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 392
top of the case to turn independently of E, and tocoil the band J on to itself, ready for the next rise of temperature. Fan or Windmill Clocks.—Fans actuated by currents of airhave been from time to time used as motors for actuating time-keepers. One, by Lepaute, is in the Louvre, Paris. In… … Fig. 4S9. ( 378 ) CHAPTER VI. FRENCH CLOCKS AND CASES IN THE FRENCH STYLE. OTHER CURIOUS TIMEKEEPERS. Beyond the examples which have already been given little need besaid respecting French horology of the sixteenth and first half of theseventeenth century. Of the early French clockniakers,…
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