Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers: A Historical and Descriptive Account of the Different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad Containing a List of Nearly Fourteen Thousand Makers |
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... marine chronometer ever made , with only one exception . The two English horologists , John Arnold and Thomas ... marine chronometers ever since . Bitter rivals , they accused each other of plagiarism and the absolute priority of idea ...
... marine chronometer ever made , with only one exception . The two English horologists , John Arnold and Thomas ... marine chronometers ever since . Bitter rivals , they accused each other of plagiarism and the absolute priority of idea ...
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... chronometer ran for 38 hours . A weakness of the instrument was that the ... marine chronometers in the world . But whereas Harrison forced an inferior ... marine chronometer . Ferdinand Berthoud 1729-1807 Berthoud was a prolific ...
... chronometer ran for 38 hours . A weakness of the instrument was that the ... marine chronometers in the world . But whereas Harrison forced an inferior ... marine chronometer . Ferdinand Berthoud 1729-1807 Berthoud was a prolific ...
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... the incomparable Breguet , and Cole , Frodsham , Hardy , Ulrich , Pettavel , Leslie , Gowland , Benoit , Riefler , Hillgren and many others whose inventions 202 Old clocks and watches Later development of the marine chronometer.
... the incomparable Breguet , and Cole , Frodsham , Hardy , Ulrich , Pettavel , Leslie , Gowland , Benoit , Riefler , Hillgren and many others whose inventions 202 Old clocks and watches Later development of the marine chronometer.
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
Clepsydra or water clock | 3 |
Verge Escapement | 4 |
Copyright | |
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Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers Granville Hugh Baillie,Frederick James Britten,C. Clutton No preview available - 2011 |
Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers Granville Hugh Baillie,Frederick James Britten,C. Clutton No preview available - 2011 |
Common terms and phrases
Admitted C.C. alarum anchor escapement Apprenticed arbor back plate balance spring balance staff bell Blois Born bracket clock brass break-arch Breguet British Museum centre champlevé chapter ring circa Clockmakers clocks and watches cock collection crown wheel cylinder escapement Daniel Quare decoration detent dial plate died earliest early Earnshaw Edward eighteenth century enamel dial English engraved escape wheel examples figures fusee Geneva GEORGE gilt gold Graham Harrison HENRY hood horology Huygens impulse inches invented JAMES JOHN JOSEPH lantern clock later lever escapement London long-case clock Louis makers marine chronometer Master mechanism ment metal minute hand movement Mudge ornaments outer pair-case pallet Paris pendulum clocks period pierced PIERRE pillars pinion pivoted quarter rare regulator remontoire repeating watch seventeenth century silver spandrel stackfreed steel striking train style teeth THOMAS Thomas Tompion THOS timekeeper Tompion tooth usually verge escapement watchmaker WILLIAM winding winding holes