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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 49

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he hand, instead of being fixed to the axis ofthe barrel, had its motion communicated through a wheel and pinion,so that the weight did not need to be wound up so frequently as wouldotherwise be the case. If the weight were freely subjected to the 32 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers… … each other. The device adopted to check the progress of the weightwas as follows : Connected with the arbor carrying the hand is aspindle carrying a wheel with ratchet-shaped teeth, as will be seen Weight Clocks 33 from Fig. 25. This wheel, called the escape wheel, has an oddnumber of teeth, and on…

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