The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7Grolier, 1994 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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The earliest extant illustration of such a clock is in an illuminated manuscript of 1406 in the National Library of ... Early French spring - driven clocks employed a device called a fusee to equalize the force of the uncoiling spring .
The earliest extant illustration of such a clock is in an illuminated manuscript of 1406 in the National Library of ... Early French spring - driven clocks employed a device called a fusee to equalize the force of the uncoiling spring .
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Early pieces were impressed with a die only on one side ; the reverse side was blank . ... The silver coinages of Aegina , Corinth , Chal- cis , and Eretria arose about 650 B. C. The early pieces of Athens ( about 594 B. C. ) with the ...
Early pieces were impressed with a die only on one side ; the reverse side was blank . ... The silver coinages of Aegina , Corinth , Chal- cis , and Eretria arose about 650 B. C. The early pieces of Athens ( about 594 B. C. ) with the ...
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These machines , along with UNIVAC , were the earliest machines produced commercially in multiple copies . Their memories were made obsolete by ... The former was instrumental in developing at MIT an early computer called WHIRLWIND .
These machines , along with UNIVAC , were the earliest machines produced commercially in multiple copies . Their memories were made obsolete by ... The former was instrumental in developing at MIT an early computer called WHIRLWIND .
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