Clocks and Watches, 1400-1900 |
Contents
List of Illustrations | 7 |
Preface and Acknowledgements II | 11 |
Monastic Clocks IS 2 Great Clocks | 20 |
Copyright | |
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anchor escapement appeared arbor astronomical back plate balance spring balance wheel became bell Black Forest bracket clocks brass break arch Breguet calendar called carriage clocks centre chapter ring chiming clockmakers clocks and watches clocks introduced crown wheel cylinder escapement decoration disc drive earliest early eighteenth century elaborate employed England English clocks engraved escape wheel favour foliot French fusee gears glass going barrel hood hour hand Huygens indicated invented John Ellicott lantern clock large numbers later lever escapement London longcase clocks mahogany mainspring marine chronometer mechanism metal minute hand moon dial Museum nineteenth century painted dial pallets pendulum clock pendulum rod period pillars popular rack regulator rotated seconds hand seventeenth century shape short pendulum shown in Plate skeleton clocks spring-driven stackfreed style swing Swiss table clock teeth Thomas Tompion timekeeping Tompion tooth turned usually veneered verge escapement watchmakers weight winding wood wooden wound