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 366
ath. In 1878 the tomb had become very dilapidated, the inscription Records of Early Makers, Etc, 349 being barely decipherable, and I then suggested to Mr. W. H. Prosserthat he should obtain subscriptions, and have it restored. This heproceeded to do ; but on applying to the Clockmakers Company,… … Fig. 487.—Late Clock by John Harrison, in possession of theRoyal Astronomical Society. (Fig. 484) is from one by P. L. Tassaert, after a portrait by T. King,taken in 1768. The earlier effort behind Harrison is his No. 3timekeeper, now at Greenwich, but the artist has drawn it about threetimes as…
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