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 nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 293
r for his religion. Edward Booth devotedconsiderable attention to horological instruments. He was undoubtedlythe inventor of the rack repeating striking work for clocks, which wasapplied by Tompion about 1676. He also devised a repeating watchon the same principle, and made application to patent it… … Fig. 422.—Bracket Clock by Henry Jones. Records of Early Makers, Etc, 277 and quarters with one push from a pin near the pendant, whereasBarlows watch was furnished with a pin on each side of the pendantand required two distinct operations to attain the same end. Booth invented the cyhnder…
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