English precision pendulum clocks
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English precision pendulum clocks
（A Schiffer book for collectors）
Schiffer Pub., c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Contents of Works
- John Shelton, Thomas Mudge, and William Dutton
- John Ellicott and Alexander Cumming
- John Arnold, John Roger Arnold, and Arnold & Dent
- The regulators of Thomas Earnshaw and George Margetts
- The Vulliamys
- The spring pallet escapements of Hardy and Reid
- James Ferguson, Benjamin Martin, Henry Ward, Joseph Bannister, William Congreve, William George Schoof, and Thomas Cole
- Robert Molyneaux, the Condlifs, Thomas Leyland, Henry Walsh, and Thomas Cooke
- The Frodshams
- E.J. Dent and his successors
- The Georgian and Regency style
- Victorian regulators including the gravity escapement
- Wall and table regulators
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This beautiful book presents the fascinating developments in precision time keeping in England from 1720 through the 18th and 19th centuries. The work of well-known 18th century horologists, Shelton, Ellicott, Arnold, Cumming, Earnshaw and the Vulliamys, Reid and Hardy and others are included. Their technical advances in precision pendulum clocks are documented along with the evolution of the cases they were housed in, from the early Georgian style to the classic Victorian dome-topped regulators. Over 700 color and black and white photographs and illustrations document these historically significant time regulators. They have become essential our everyday lives, aiding the industrial revolution, regulating the timetables of trains and being used by clockmakers to regulate the watches and clocks the world had come to rely on.
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