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id: 855
author: Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)
title: Clocks
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summary:
  There are two kinds of clocks. As for the other class of clocks--the common or always-wrong clocks--they are harmless enough.


id: 20317
author: Hall, Eugene Edward
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sentence: 401
flesch: 73
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title:
  A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material

summary:
  The first requisite is a true taper chuck; and it is well to purchase an extra one to be used solely for this purpose, so that you will be prepared at all times for staff work. Of course, the brass shell can be removed and placed in position again without in any way affecting the truth of the center, and any number, shape and size of shells can be made to fit the one taper, and these shells will be found very useful for holding a variety of work, aside from balance staffs.


id: 44838
author: Arthur, James
title: Time and Its Measurement
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words: 22399
sentence: 1078
flesch: 75
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summary:
  The above table shows the variation of the sun from mean or clock time, by even minutes. One rotation of the earth in 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4 seconds, nearly, of clock time. 3rd.


id: 38340
author: Kleinlein, Walter J. (Walter John)
title: Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches
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words: 29174
sentence: 1320
flesch: 67
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  The same designations used as referring to position rates, or results to be expected in positions should be interpreted to mean with the individual facing the dial side of the watch. If it is what it should be, about ninety per cent of the necessary work required for obtaining close position rates will have been completed. 56.


id: 15569
author: Molesworth, Mrs.
title: The Cuckoo Clock
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words: 38435
sentence: 2468
flesch: 93
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summary:
  Griselda _felt_ her way as best she could, past the Chinese cabinet and the pot-pourri jar, till she got to the ante-room door. Dorcas, you should have hastened, not delayed Miss Griselda.


id: 45883
author: Benson, James W., active 1857-1887
title: Time and Time-Tellers
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words: 37757
sentence: 1261
flesch: 63
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summary:
  The Equation of Time shows how many minutes are to be added to, or subtracted from, sun-dial time in order to show clock time. 'Time is, time was, time's past' seems to comprise a whole world of hopes, fears, and lost opportunities, and sounds like a little condensed history of all that ever has happened or ever can happen.


id: 45772
author: Hayden, Arthur
title: Chats on Old Clocks
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sentence: 2228
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summary:
  INDEX Act of Parliament clocks, so-called, 124 Adam style, its employment in the clock-case, 147 Robert, clock-case by, illustrated, 139 Aicken, George (Cork), clock by, 277 Alarum clocks, 54 and striking clocks, early, 32 Ale-house clocks, Oliver Goldsmith quoted, 127 American clocks-- Banjo clocks, 124 Bracket clock, by Savin and Dyer (Boston), 198 Lantern clock, with pendulum, 59 Anchor pendulum, the, 59 Arnold, John (Bodmin), 37, 212 Astronomical clock-dial, the, 28 Babylonian measurement of time, 28, 29, 30 Bacon, quoted, 53 Balance and weights prior to pendulum, 33 Barraud, clock by (1805), 203 Battersea enamel employed for watch-cases, 290 Beginners, hints for, 41 Belfast clocks and clockmakers, 272 Bewick, Thomas, engraver of clock-dials (1763-74), 215, 217 Biddell, clock by, 204 Birdcage clocks, 54 Böttger, his porcelain at Meissen, 109 Boulle, André Charles, and his marquetry, 72, 73, 111 Bracket clock, the, 179-204 or wall clock, the, early use of, 46, 49 Brass lantern clock, the, 45-63 Bristol clock illustrated, 149 Britten, F. J., _Old Clocks and Clockmakers_, full lists of makers in, 37 Brownhill, Henry (Leeds), copper token of, 218 Cabrier, name falsely put on Dutch clocks, 36 Calendar watch illustrated, 291 Case, the, evolution of, 155 Catherine of Braganza, dowry of, 107 Centres of clock and watch making in 1797, 214 Chamber clocks an established feature in furniture, 192 Chamberlaine, Thomas, de Chelmisforde, watch by, 291 Charles I, watch belonging to, 289 Charles II, death-bed scene of, 50, 53 Watch by Robert Hooke presented to, 36 Cherub head, the, a favourite ornament, 166 Its use on clock-dial, 169 Its use on Stuart furniture, 170 Cheshire clock-case, peculiarities of, 230 Chester, Bishop of (John Wilkins), quoted, 30 Chinese style of Chippendale, 91, 108 Designs at Worcester, Bow, and Bristol porcelain factories, 108 Taste, the _furore_ in France and Holland, 108 Chintzes, the early character of, 111 Chippendale, his Chinese style, 91, 108 His indebtedness to Marot, 155 Style in clock cases, 136 Clockmakers' Company, 1704, transactions of, quoted, 36 On fabrications of English work, 36 Clockmakers, the great English, 35 English, full list of, 37 Clockmaking, decadence of, 38 Personality in, 38, 39 Collecting period, the, 38 Collectors, hints for, foibles of, 39, 41 Colour _versus_ form, 110 Cookworthy, William, his true porcelain at Plymouth, 109 Copper tokens of clockmakers illustrated, 218, 236 Cork, clocks and clockmakers at, 289 Cornwall clockmakers, list of, 241 Country marquetry, 60 Cromwellian plum watch illustrated, 283 Cumming, Alexander, clock by (1770), 203 Day and night, 27, 29 Day, the, its division into hours, 28 Lunar, 29 Mean solar, 28 Delft, Dutch, ornamentation of, used in marquetry, 98 Devon and Cornwall clockmakers, list of, 241 Dial, the-- Brass, with silvered hour circle and engraved figures, 158 Character of, 157 Correct proportions of the, 165 Early form of, 30 Evolution of, 162, 165 Iron painted ornament and figures, 158 Position of maker's name on, 158, 161 Dickens, _Dombey and Son_ quoted, 31 Domestic clock, the, 33 Draper, John (1703), dial of clock by, 158 Dublin clocks and clockmakers, 272 National Museum, examples at, illustrated, 269, 273 Dutch clock panels imported, 97 Delft ware, its imitation of porcelain, 111 Fabrications of noted English makers, 36 Influence on cabinet-maker, 67 Influence on clockmaker, 217, 271 Origin of long-case clock, 154 Ornament found on clocks-- Cupids and crown, 170 Marquetry panels, 92 Phases of moon, 217 Spandrel with Seasons, 271 Dutton, Matthew, 37 Thomas, 37 William, 37 Earnshaw, Thomas (1750), 37, 212 East Anglian clockmakers, list of, 247 East, Edward, 37 East India Company, the Dutch, 107 The English, 109 Ebsworth, John, 37 Edict of Nantes and its effect, 68, 90, 120 Edinburgh clocks and clockmakers, 261-265 Eighteenth century, best period of clockmaking in, 40 Elizabethan watch illustrated, 289 Ellicott, John (Bodmin), 212 English masters of clockmaking, the great, 35 School of lacquered work, 114 Equation of time, 29 Evelyn, _Diary_ of, quoted (1681), 107 Evolution of the English mantel clock, 186 Evolution of long-case clock, 153 Base, its changing form, 155 Dial, its character, 157 Hands, their differing types, 174 Spandrel, its ornamentation, 166 Waist, its varying proportion, 155 Exeter clockmakers, list of, 241 Fleur-de-lis ornament on dial, 174 Foreign craftsmen working in England-- Dutch marquetry workers, 83, 92 French Huguenot cabinet-makers, 69, 90 Italian glassworkers, 69 Form, changing, of hood, waist, and base, 155 Innovations of, in clock-cases, 141 _versus_ colour, 111 French clocks and their influence, 147, 197, 278 Influence on mantel clocks, 197 Fromanteel, Ahasuerus, pendulum introduced into England by, 37 The family of, great clockmakers, 37 Furniture, influence of, on clock case, 141 Georgian clocks (1720-1830), 131 German school of marquetry, 72 Gibbons, Grinling, 121 Glasgow, example at Corporation Art Gallery illustrated, 259 Glass windows, when first used in coaches, 161 Workers in London, seventeenth-century, 69 Goldsmith, Oliver, _Deserted Village_ quoted, 127 Gordon, Patrick (Edinburgh), clock by, 261 Thomas (Edinburgh), 1668-1743, 261 Graham, George (1673-1751), 212 His evidence as to Robert Hooke's invention, 36 Grandfather clock, the, its Dutch origin, 74 Its long survival, 135 Its popularity, 135 Grant, John, 37 Inn clock by, illustrated, 125 Graydon, George (Dublin), clock by (1796), 277 Greek measurement of time, 28, 29 Halifax and district, list of clockmakers, 217 Halifax grandfather clocks, 217 Hampton Court, Dutch character of, 91 Protestant style of decoration at, 170 The work of Daniel Marot at, 91 [Illustration: LONG CASE CLOCK.


id: 17021
author: Anonymous
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sentence: 3462
flesch: 74
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title:
  Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology

summary:
  The sliding center _I_ can be held in the V-shaped groove by two light friction springs, as indicated at the dotted lines _s s_, Fig. 115, or a flat plate of No. 24 or 25 sheet brass of the size of _H_ can be employed, as shown at Figs. 116 and 117, where _o_ represents the plate of No. 24 brass, _p p_ Drawing a line from point _n_ to point _s_ we define the impulse face of the pallet.


id: 21035
author: Reed, Talbot Baines
title: The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
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words: 76878
sentence: 4174
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Here, young un, tell Tom Drift Charlie can't come. But there's no knowing where it is now; poor Tom Drift must have parted with it years ago.


