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Watch and clock escapements; (1904)

Philadelphia, The Keystone · leaf 161

An illustration from Watch and clock escapements;, 1904, leaf 161 — Fig. 149 158 Watch and Clock Escapements. in 1600, when Galileo discovered the law governing the oscillationof the pendulum, they did not suspect how important this discovery-was for the science of time measurement. … GALILEO S EXPERIMENTS. Galileo, himself, in spite of his genius for investigation, was soengrossed in his researches that he could not seem to disengage the the simple pendulum from the com-Y<,w/,>},;:<,zm>//x-XK^^^fk pound pendulums to which he de-voted his attention ; besides,…

Clocks and watches

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