The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature, Science, History, Geography, Commerce, Biography, Discovery and Invention, Volume 6Werner Company, 1907 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... appears to be no clear evidence that they were machines at all resembling those which have been in use for the last five or six centuries . But it may be inferred from various allusions to horologia , and to their striking spontaneously ...
... appears to be no clear evidence that they were machines at all resembling those which have been in use for the last five or six centuries . But it may be inferred from various allusions to horologia , and to their striking spontaneously ...
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... appears from further investigation of the subject in sev- eral papers in the R.A.S. Notices of 1872 and 1873 , that the barometrical error also varies with the nature of the escapement , and ( as Baily had before concluded from ...
... appears from further investigation of the subject in sev- eral papers in the R.A.S. Notices of 1872 and 1873 , that the barometrical error also varies with the nature of the escapement , and ( as Baily had before concluded from ...
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... appears to have been re- sorted to until long after the escapement had become super- seded by the " anchor " escapement , which we shall now de- scribe , and which appears to have been invented by the cel- ebrated Dr. Hooke as early as ...
... appears to have been re- sorted to until long after the escapement had become super- seded by the " anchor " escapement , which we shall now de- scribe , and which appears to have been invented by the cel- ebrated Dr. Hooke as early as ...
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... appears also that it would be possible so to adjust the recoil of the half - dead pallets that the time would not be ... appear worth special notice . One was proposed by Sir G. Airy in vol . ii . of the Cambridge Transactions , but not ...
... appears also that it would be possible so to adjust the recoil of the half - dead pallets that the time would not be ... appear worth special notice . One was proposed by Sir G. Airy in vol . ii . of the Cambridge Transactions , but not ...
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... appears to be , and though various have a slight wire hanging down a little below the dial plans apparently ... appear to have been taken to establish anything of the kind in this country , except that watch " movements , " which means ...
... appears to be , and though various have a slight wire hanging down a little below the dial plans apparently ... appear to have been taken to establish anything of the kind in this country , except that watch " movements , " which means ...
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