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Clocks and watches

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House furnishings
Horology
Chronology as Topic

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Images about Clocks and watches

121 images from works
  • Clocks: composite pendulum, side and front view with details. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • A tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from an agonized patient. Lithograph by A. Bayot.
  • Clocks: composite pendulum, side and front view with details. Engraving by Mutlow.
  • Clocks: diagrams of water-clocks. Engraving, c. 1861.
  • Higham Ferrers Church and Free-School, Northamptonshire, England. Line engraving.
  • 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.
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Works from the collections

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    St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.

    | Date: January 1811 | Reference: 18321i
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    Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

    | Date: 1809 | Reference: 45215i
    • Books
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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.

    Ferguson, James, 1710-1776. | Date: 1778
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    Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

    Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799. | Reference: 40772i
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    Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

    | Reference: 40730i
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