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 380
rologist by intuition is evident. Heis said to have been honest and straightforward, but somewhat ruggedin his manner. There are, however, but few details of his hfe to beobtained. He was apprenticed to a watchmaker when fourteen yearsof age, and seemr to have come to London immediately on… … Fig. 496.—John Arnold, his Wife and Son. He married early m life, and the necessity of providing for a familyout of his earnings seems to have hampered him considerably incarrying out his projects. To improve the chronometer escapement he, in 1781, conceived theidea of substituting a spring detent…
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