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 615
nded, and for trading ingold or silver articles above those weights an annual payment of £5.l5s. Hogarths Dial—I will append as a curiosity a strange dialpublished by William Hogarth in a paper called The Masquerade Ticketwhich appears to have been put forth as a satire on the positionaccorded to… … Fig. 821. CHAPTER VIIIMECHANISM OF CLOCKS AND WATCHES THE PENDULUM.— It is not certain who first used thependulum as a controller for clocks. Galileo, the famousastronomer, in 1582 remarked the synchronous vibrations ofthe lamps suspended by long chains from the roof of the cathedralat Pisa, and it…
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