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Time and its measurement (1909)

Arthur, James, 1842-1930 · Chicago · leaf 40

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in which some-thing moves back and forth and allowsthe teeth of an escape wheel to es-cape. While this escapement is, insome respects, the simplest one, it hasalways been difficult to make it plainin a drawing, so I have made an efifortto explain it by making the side of thewheel and its pallet B,… … Fig. 25—Verge Escapement C on the farther side of wheel is mov-ing left, so it will fall on pallet A, to be 38 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT in its turn liberated as the pallets andfoliot svvino- back and forth. It is easy ■CORO.

Time · Clocks and watches

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