The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier, 1989 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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... clocks so much that all new clocks incorpo- rated them , and many an older clock was con- verted to employ one . Coster's first pendulum clocks were housed in very simple wooden cases . In Holland and England these evolved into the ...
... clocks so much that all new clocks incorpo- rated them , and many an older clock was con- verted to employ one . Coster's first pendulum clocks were housed in very simple wooden cases . In Holland and England these evolved into the ...
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CLOCK Terry & Andrews clock with an ogee style case and a 30- hour stamped brass works ; Bristol , Conn . , about ... Clocks . Wheatstone devised a system in 1869 in which the electric circuit was closed , and the pendulum acted as a ...
CLOCK Terry & Andrews clock with an ogee style case and a 30- hour stamped brass works ; Bristol , Conn . , about ... Clocks . Wheatstone devised a system in 1869 in which the electric circuit was closed , and the pendulum acted as a ...
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... Clocks Over Seven Hun- dred Years : 1250-1950 ( Antique Collector's Club 1981 ) . Macey , Samuel L. , Clocks and the Cosmos ( Shoe String 1980 ) . Tait , H. , Clocks and Watches ( Harvard Univ . Press 1983 ) . Tardy , French Clocks , Clocks ...
... Clocks Over Seven Hun- dred Years : 1250-1950 ( Antique Collector's Club 1981 ) . Macey , Samuel L. , Clocks and the Cosmos ( Shoe String 1980 ) . Tait , H. , Clocks and Watches ( Harvard Univ . Press 1983 ) . Tardy , French Clocks , Clocks ...
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