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Gearing

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  • Clocks: details of a dividing engine for setting out gearwheels. Engraving by Prevost [after G. d'Heuland].
  • Clocks: various pocket watches, and details of their mechanisms. Engraving c.1861.
  • Clocks: an escapement mechanism. Engraving by W. Kelsall after J. Clement.
  • Engineering: a large double-chamber steam engine. Coloured drawing.
  • Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.
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    Engineering: a large cogwheel, front and side elevations. Coloured drawing, 1875.

    | Date: 1845 | Reference: 46106i
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    Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

    | Reference: 40730i
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    Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

    Bourgeois. | Reference: 40868i
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    Technology: a door-closing mechanism: long section, cross-section, and details. Engraving by G. Gladwin after himself.

    Gladwin, George. | Reference: 44399i
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    The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.

    Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903. | Date: [1947]
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