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Page 33
... pendulum is hanging on the spring when it breaks , this too can be damaged - sometimes disastrously . Silk Suspensions Not all clocks have a steel suspension spring . Many early French clocks and other Continental clocks have their ...
... pendulum is hanging on the spring when it breaks , this too can be damaged - sometimes disastrously . Silk Suspensions Not all clocks have a steel suspension spring . Many early French clocks and other Continental clocks have their ...
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... pendulum had been invented it became evident that its rate changed with temperature . A clock with a brass pendulum rod will lose a quarter of a minute a day in the summer as compared with in winter . The substitution of a steel rod for ...
... pendulum had been invented it became evident that its rate changed with temperature . A clock with a brass pendulum rod will lose a quarter of a minute a day in the summer as compared with in winter . The substitution of a steel rod for ...
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... PENDULUM CLOCK . This clock has a pendulum whose bob describes the path of a circle . This type of pendulum is mostly used for the equatorial clocks where continuous motion is required . The pendulum makes one revolution in the same ...
... PENDULUM CLOCK . This clock has a pendulum whose bob describes the path of a circle . This type of pendulum is mostly used for the equatorial clocks where continuous motion is required . The pendulum makes one revolution in the same ...
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 bell Blued steel BRACKET CLOCK brass BRITISH HOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE British Museum CARRIAGE CLOCK century chapter ring chiming chronometer 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 gear 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 repair restorer Road rotates screw scrolling side silver skeleton clocks snail square 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