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 295
Fig. 423.—Watch by SamuelBetts, about 1640. 278 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers to the same trade ; but the first rehable record shows him to havebeen in business as a clockmaker at Water Lane, Blackfriars, whenquite a young man. Water Lane was a long, tortuous thoroughfare, the western… … f/////, 7/ » ////< VA//. >< iu :^ Fig. 424.—Thomas Tompion, 1638-1713. where the offices of the Daily News are. His advent marks a distinctepoch in the history of the horological art. Throughout his career hewas closely associated with some of the leading mathematicians andphilosophers of…
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