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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 364

An illustration from 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, leaf 364
he seconds arbor is in the centre of the Records of Early Makers, Etc. 347 watch, and is driven by the seconds wheel below the contrate wheel.The projections p p on the barrel of the remontoir are to preventthe remontoir running down. Fig. 4 shows the pallets, which, instead ol forming an angle of… … Fig. 486.—Harrisons Remontoir Escapement. During William Harrisons voyages, the rate of the watch couldnot, of course, be checked daily for want of some means of comparison,and so in May 1766 the Board of Longitude placed the instrument atthe Greenwich Observatory in the hands of Dr. Maskelyne, who…

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