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 324
rners of the hood,as shown in Fig. 456, which is from aphotograph lent to me by Messrs.Gaydon, of Kingston. The dial plate is16 by 14 in., and along the bottom of itare. three subsidiary dials ; one showsthe rising and setting of the sun, themiddle one has an index and a scale forlatitude ; the… … opposite Tempus oequale. In 1836 Vulliamy substituted a dead beat escapement and a new pendulum for the original ones, but until 1898 the clock had not been going for some years. In the Philosophical Transactions for November and Decem-ber, 1719, is a paper by Joseph Williamson, claiming the…
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