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 445
ed from the vertical and horizontal sections which aregiven in Fig. 559, borrowed from Les Merveilles de IHorlogerie. 430 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. The suspending cord is coiled round a barrel, with which is connecteda train of wheels terminating in an escapement and balance.… … Fig. 559- weight of the ball acting as a driving force. The mechanism iswound by simply raising the ball with the hand, there being a weakspring in the barrel, which causes it to turn and coil the suspendingcord on to itself. At the British Museum are two of these falling ball timekeepers of4…
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