Instrument that measures the passage of time

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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: 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.

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

A young woman comes to visit a sick young man in hope that her love will cure him, surrounded by relatives. Line engraving by J. Goodyear after P.E. Destouches.

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

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

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.

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.

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Clocks and watches

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Images about Clocks and watches

Works from the collections

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

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 and watches

Images from the collections

Images about Clocks and watches

Works from the collections

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

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.

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