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 303
0 being in the centre, and the variation to a maximumof fifteen minutes shown on each side ; on the right, Sun faster,and to the left, Sun slower. The months and days are engravedon a silvered lO-in. circle, of which an arc is shown through anopening. The number of minutes shown by the index gives… … Fig. 435. -Original Travelling Case of Clockby Tompion. being 15 in. in diameter ; the day Records of Early Makers, Etc. 287 makes one revolution per hour. The index is kept in position by asmall counterpoise with a pulley fitted to its arbor ; the pulley isattached b}^ a fine chain to a…
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