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 94
weight clock of large size or a very minute spring timepiece ismeant. Derham, in all the editions of liis book, speaks of time-keepers driven by weights as watches, reserving tlie word clockfor parts connected with the striking. The action of the mainspring, which still retains its place as amotor… … Fig. 76. -Striking Watch about1575. y% Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers part of the arbor a, and its outer end attached to the inside of the rimof the barrel. The arbor passes through and fits easily a hole in thebottom of the barrel, and a hole in the barrel cover e. The spring iswound by…
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