The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development |
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The Marine Chronometer, Its History and Development. With a Foreword by Sir ... Rupert Thomas Gould No preview available - 2023 |
The Marine Chronometer, Its History and Development. with a Foreword by Sir ... Rupert Thomas Gould No preview available - 2015 |
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accordingly action adjustment Admiralty alteration amount appears arbor Arnold Auxiliary compensation balance spring balance staff balance-spring Berthoud bi-metallic strip Board of Longitude box chronometers brass Breguet carried centre chrono chronometer escapement chronometer makers clock Clockmakers compensation balance compensation curb considerably construction cross-bar curb pins cylinder escapement daily rate Dent dial discharging pallet Earnshaw effect employed escape wheel Ferdinand Berthoud fitted friction fusee gimbals going barrel Greenwich hand Harrison Horological horologist impulse pallet invention inventor isochronism Kullberg latter lever escapement locking M.T. error machine mainspring marine timekeeper Maskelyne mechanism meter method minute modern chronometer moment of inertia motion movement Mudge Mudge's Observatory obtained ordinary pattern passing spring patented pendulum pinion pocket chronometers position practically remontoire reward rims roller Roy's Royal Observatory screws ship shown in fig slightly steel teeth temperature Thomas Earnshaw Thomas Mudge tooth top-plate trial numbers Ulrich unlocking vibration voyage watch winding