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 454
an ingenious mechanician, an officer in theRoyal Artillery, and a member of Parliament. In succession to hisfather he in 1814 became a baronet and also Comptroller of theRoyal Laboratory at Woolwich. In 1808 he patented a timekeeperin which a small metal ball rolled down grooves in an inclined… … Fig. 570. the next at the point of the Y. On arriving at the lowest point ofthe inclined plane the ball with its acquired impetus unlocked thetrain, which thereupon reversed the inclination of the plane or tableby the intervention of a crank and connecting rod, and the ballstarted on its journey in…
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