Art, science and industry of clock making

Clocks: composite pendulum, side and front view with details. Engraving by Mutlow.

Clocks: diagrams of water-clocks. Engraving, c. 1861.

Clocks: jigs for spring-coiling (top), and cog-placing (below). Engraving by Lachaussé after L.J. Goussier.

Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].

Clocks: a chronometer, face (top) and mechanism (below). Engraving by Benard after L.J. Goussier.

Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.

Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.

Clocks: a large carved stone gnomon, dated 1714, on Lord Reay's estate at Tongue. Lithograph after a drawing by C. G. Loch.

Clocks: faces (top), and mechanisms (below) of a Ferguson (right), and a Smeaton-Franklin clock (left). Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

Clocks: various views of a clock mechanism. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.

Clocks: a Ferguson clock, face (right), and diagrams of the mechanism (left). Engraving by A. Bell.

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; image 23.3 x 17.5 cm

Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.2 x 19.8 cm

Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 31.9 x 20 cm

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by A. Bell.

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Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by A. Bell.

Horology

Images from the collections

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Works from the collections

Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by A. Bell.

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