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 476
an escapement and balance. While the top French Clocks and Cases in the French Style 459 and bottom of the ball are rigidly connected, the middle is free tomove, and is furnished with a ring of teeth projecting inside, throughwhich the middle is rotated once in twenty-four hours, the weightof the… … Fig. 607.—Vertical and horizontal sections of Falling BallTimekeeper. At the British Museum are two of these falling ball timekeepersof 4 in. in diameter. One of them is inscribed JacobBehan, Vienna.In the National Museum, Cracow, is one signed Davidt-Schroter-inElbing. Schroter flourished about…
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