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 80
of ^3 Portable Timekeepers 63 George III., carefnl examination revealed the fact that the inscriptionwas undoubtedly a recent addition, and the watch a production ofthree centuries later than Bruce. Except that the quotation ofBarringtons statement is perennial, it would be hardly worth whileto… … Fig. 48.—Cover closed. timekeeper was accomphshed by Peter Henlein or Hele, a clockmakerof Nuremberg, who was born in 1480 and died in 1542. He, shortlyafter 1500, used a long ribbon of steel tightly coiled round a centralspindle to maintain the motion of the mechanism. The invention hasbeen…
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