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 419
a self-winding clock inventedby the late Gustave Horstmann, of Bath, the expansion andcontraction of a liquid are used to wind the clock. A strong metalvessel, A in the figure,is filled with an easily expanding fluid, suchas benzoline, mineral naphtha, &c. Connected to this vessel by astrong… … Fig. 532—Bracket Chiming Clock, by^James Cox, 1769. Records of Early Makers, Etc. 403 mmm/wA with a thicker and more lubricating fluid, such as glycerine. Thevessel containing the expanding fluid is on a liigher elevation thanthe piston and cylinder. This is done to prevent them mixing, asbenzoline…
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