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 99
ption which G 2 84 Old Clocks and WaicJics and their Makers. Smyth translates thus: When we counted 1525 years, then mademe Jacob Zech (or rather Jacob the Bohemian) at Prague; it istrue. There was originally some additional wheelwork to show themotion of the sun and moon on an engraved ecliptic,… … Fig. Si. with the fusee, but a metallic chain was subsequently applied,which destroyed several of the threads. Before this was done itwent for forty-eight hours with one winding, and gave about 3600beats in the hour. Fig. 80 shows a primitive table timepiece which was formerly inthe collection of…
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