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Instrument that measures the passage of time
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A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177-.
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Leroux, John, 1750-1805.
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Date: [between 1770 and 1779]
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Reference: 539062i
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St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.
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Date: January 1811
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Reference: 18321i
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Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
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Date: 1809
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Reference: 45215i
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Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials. On plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles, and new tables. I, for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within ... 6,000 years before and after the 18th century ... II. For graduating and examining the usual lines ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson.
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James Ferguson
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Date: 1778
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Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
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Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.
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Reference: 40772i
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Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.
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Reference: 40730i
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