Time And Time-Tellers
by James W. Benson
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About this eBook
- Author
- Benson, James W., active 1857-1887
- Title
- Time and Time-Tellers
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Mark Young and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TS: Technology: Manufactures
- Subject
- Clocks and watches
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 45883
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45883
- Release Date
- June 4, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.TIME AND TIME-TELLERS. — TIME AND TIME-TELLERS. — BY
- 2.JAMES W. BENSON.
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4.INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 5.TIME AND TIME-TELLERS.
- 6.MODERN WATCHES: — THEIR VARIETIES AND MODES OF MANUFACTURE.
- 7.KEYLESS WATCHES.
- 8.HOUSE CLOCKS.
- 9.TURRET CLOCKS. — THE WHEELS. — PENDULUMS. — FALL OF THE WEIGHTS. — CROWN-WHEEL ESCAPEMENT. — THE ANCHOR ESCAPEMENT. — THE DEAD-BEAT ESCAPEMENT. — FRENCH SINGLE-PIN ESCAPEMENT. — THREE-LEGG'D GRAVITY ESCAPEMENT. — DOUBLE THREE-LEGG'D ESCAPEMENT. — THE REMONTOIRE. — THE DIALS. — THE HANDS — THE FRAME. — THE FIXING — A MODERN TURRET CLOCK DESCRIBED. — HAMMER AND BELL. — THE GREAT CLOCKS OF THE INTERNATIONAL — EXHIBITION OF 1862. — BENSON'S GREAT CLOCK. — A CALENDAR AND WIND-DIAL — SUN-DIALS — CARILLON CHIMES.
- 10.ALMANAC READERS.
- 11.Transcriber's Notes:
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