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 381
Watches and their Makers kept the watch for a year to observe its going, and did not obtain thepatent till 1783. In the meantime John Arnold had lodged a patentspecification, claiming the same thing as his invention. To the end ofhis life Earnshaw lost no opportunity of declaring in emphatic… … Fig. 497.—Thomas Earnshaw, 1749-1829. The patent cost Wright £100, and as all negotiations with Brockbank,Haley, Wm. Hughes, Best, and other leading watchmakers to purchasea share of it failed, watches with the new escapement were manufac-tured for various people on payment to Wright of a royalty…
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