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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 420

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to itself, readyfor the next rise of temperature. Fan or Windmill Clocks.—Fans actuated by currents of air havebeen from time to time used as motors for actuating timekeepers.One, by Lepaute, is in the Louvre, Paris. Benjamin Hanks, ofLitchfield County, Connecticut, patented one in 1783. In… … 533.—Self-wind-ing Clock. CHAPTER >VI FRENCH CLOCKS AND CASES IN THE FRENCHSTYLE. OTHER CURIOUS TIMEKEEPERS BEYOND the examples which have already been given little needbe said respecting French horology of the sixteenth and firsthalf of the seventeenth century. Of the early French clock-makers,…

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