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Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
The Installation and Care of Your Clock | 29 |
Glossary of ClockCase Terms | 167 |
Copyright | |
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anchor escapement aperture Art Gallery back plate back-cock bell Blued steel Bracket Clock brass British Horological Institute British Museum Carriage Clock century chapter ring chiming Clock A clock Clockmakers clocks and watches crutch dead-beat escapement decorative dial door engraved escape wheel Figure fixed French clocks front fusee gathering pallet gears gilded glazed grasshopper escapement Height 1 ft High Street holes Horological hour wheel House impulse lacquer Lantern Clock lever escapement London EC1 long-case clock mahogany mainspring makers marquetry mechanism mercury minute wheel Mon-Sat moon motion moulding mounted moved movement Museum and Art notch pallets pendulum pinion pivots polished precision clocks pulley quarter restorer Road rotates screw scroll side silver skeleton clocks snail square steel striking clocks striking train suspension spring teeth Thomas Tompion Timepiece Tompion tooth type of clock usually veneer verge escapement Vienna regulator weight weight-driven winding wood
Bibliographic information
| Title | Clocks: An Owner's Handbook |
| Author | Richard Good |
| Contributor | British Museum |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | British Museum Publications, 1985 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 4, 2009 |
| ISBN | 0714105392, 9780714105390 |
| Length | 224 pages |
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