ts im-pulse in the contrary direction. Considerable analogy exists between this form of escapement andthat shown in Fig. 153 and intended for clocks. This was the busyera in the watchmakers line. All the great heads were ponderingupon the subject and everyone was on the qui vive for the newestthing… … Fig. 159 History of Escapements. 163 did Galileo, in the application of the pendulum, to have priority inthe idea. Huygens, who had discovered and corrected the irregu-larities in the oscillations of the pendulum, did not think of those ofthe balance with the spiral spring. And it was not until the…
Clocks and watches
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