The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 6. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1878 |
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... fig . 1 is a section of any ordinary house clock . B is the barrel with the rope coiled round it , generally 16 times for the 8 days ; the barrel is fixed to its arbor K , which is prolonged into the winding square coming up to the face ...
... fig . 1 is a section of any ordinary house clock . B is the barrel with the rope coiled round it , generally 16 times for the 8 days ; the barrel is fixed to its arbor K , which is prolonged into the winding square coming up to the face ...
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... fig . 5. It will be observed that the teeth of the scape- wheel have their points set the opposite way to those of the recoil escapement in fig . 4 , the wheels themselves both turning the same way ; or ( as our engraver has re ...
... fig . 5. It will be observed that the teeth of the scape- wheel have their points set the opposite way to those of the recoil escapement in fig . 4 , the wheels themselves both turning the same way ; or ( as our engraver has re ...
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... FIG . 6.- Pin - Wheel Escapement . Passing by the various other modifications of the dead escapement which have been suggested and tried with little or no success , we proceed to describe one of an entirely different form , which was ...
... FIG . 6.- Pin - Wheel Escapement . Passing by the various other modifications of the dead escapement which have been suggested and tried with little or no success , we proceed to describe one of an entirely different form , which was ...
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... fig . 10 is resting against the stop or detent a at the end of the pallet CA , from the axis or arbor of which de- scends the half fork CP to touch the pendulum . From the other pallet CB descends the other half fork CO . The two arbors ...
... fig . 10 is resting against the stop or detent a at the end of the pallet CA , from the axis or arbor of which de- scends the half fork CP to touch the pendulum . From the other pallet CB descends the other half fork CO . The two arbors ...
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... Fig . 14 ( in which the same letters are used as in the corresponding parts of fig . 1 ) shows its construction . The click of the barrel - rat- chet R is set upon another larger ratchet - wheel , with its teeth pointing the opposite ...
... Fig . 14 ( in which the same letters are used as in the corresponding parts of fig . 1 ) shows its construction . The click of the barrel - rat- chet R is set upon another larger ratchet - wheel , with its teeth pointing the opposite ...
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