10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCAPEMENT»
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1
Treatise on Clock and Watch Making, Theoretical and Practical
172 'Scapement, detached, Mudge's 192-251 'Scapement of a clock whose
pallets require no oil 204 'Scapement, Hooke's old do. for watches 224 '
Scapement, Hooke's new for watches 224 'Scapement, Tompion's, for watches .
2
The Edinburgh encyclopaedia
This is, then, the duplex 'scapement, or the nearest possible approach to it. It is
more than fifty years since we saw a small spring clock having this 'scapement,
made by a very ingenious clockmaker of this place, whose name was Robert ...
3
Encyclopaedia; Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...
wmb- ready to receive it, &e. The vibrations may be increaswork. ed by giving a
sufficient impulse through the angle of scapement. But they cannot be more than
a certain quantity, otherwise the top N of the crank will strike the rim of the wheel.
4
A Dictionary of Mechanical Science
urges the balance in the opposite direction. Thus we see that in a scapement of
this kind the motion of the wheel must be very hobbling and unequal, making a
great step forward, and a short step backward, at every heat. This has
occasioned ...
5
Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, ...
From what has been said under the last-mentioned subdivision, it will be readily
perceived, that the common recoiling scapement of the old clocks still holds its
place in the ordinary pocket-watches, and answers all the common purposes of a
...
6
Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
What was this 'scapement? The Academy does not tell. But can M. L. R. assure
us now, supposing that this was a 'scapement with free vibrations, that the idea of
it was new? Can he require that we should believe that bis'scapement of 174-8 ...
7
A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts
Where was he to look for them ? .tim'-Pic«»> if in tne train* It was not to the '
scapement only his search was to be con* fined, but he had also to traverse
through the whole train of wheels: For though he had applied his Remontoires
beyond the ...
8
A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, and the Arts
L. R. is so jealous of this invention: he is persuaded Egéurfi'e'tdsx'l'fi that it is by
the 'scapement that the most part if the trials have miscarried which have been
made to discover “ the longitude by timelceepers, and that the 'scapement, with V
“ ...
9
A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the ...
Crutch scapcment; Coimnon' watch scapemcnt; 194. Dead beat scapement'nnd
horizon-. - tnl watch; Friction of scap_emcnts;1§5. Sec cerrcctions. Duplex
scapement; Comma scapement; .Scapemcnts of Harrison, Mudgé, Haley,
Cumming, ...
10
Paley's Natural Theology: With Illustrative Notes
The notched wheel below is the scapement- wheel ; two projecting pallets on
different faces of the axle of the balance-wheel fall in succession between the
teeth of the scapement- wheel ; when one of these slips off the teeth, and the axle
is ...
William Paley, Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux, 1836
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCAPEMENT»
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Tazewell put Kingston 'on the map'
“Having had many years experience in London, is perfectly acquainted with the patent Lever, Horizontal and Duplex Scapements, Repeaters, etc., etc.”. «The Kingston Whig-Standard, Mar 14»
