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 78
f George III., Portable Tiuickecpcvs. 63 careful examination revealed the fact that the inscription wasundoubtedly a recent addition, and the watch a production of threecenturies later than Bruce. Except that the quotation of Harringtonsstatement is perennial, it would be hardly worth while to… … Fig. 46.—Cover closed. timekeeper was accomplished by Peter Henlein or Hele, a clock-maker of Nuremberg, who was born in 1480 and died in 1542. He,shortly after 1500, used a long ribbon of steel tightly coiled round acentral spindle to maintain the motion of the mechanism. Theinvention has been…
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