Clocks and watches

The Author wishes to express his thanks to the following firms who have kindly lent blocks for illustrations : Messrs. Gillett & Johnston, Croydon; Messrs. Gent & Co., Leicester ; Messrs. James Ritchie & Son, Edinburgh ; and The Synchronome Co., London. Figs. 1, 4, and 16 have been reproduced, with the kind permission of Messrs. E. & F. N. Spon, from F. J. Britten's Watch and Clock Makers' Handbook, Dictionary, and Guide ; and among other works which have been consulted, and to which the reader is referred for more detailed information than can be included in the present book, are : Rees's Cyclopaedia ; E. J. Wood's Curiosities of Clocks and Watches ; Cescinsky and Webster's English Domestic Clocks ; F. J. Britten's Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers ; D. Glasgow's Watch and Clock Making ; Lord Grimthorpe's Clocks, Watches, and Bells ; Saunier's Treatise on Modern Horology.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

PREFACE

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I TIME

CHAPTER II PRIMITIVE METHODS OF TIME MEASUREMENT

CHAPTER III THE PENDULUM AND CLOCK ESCAPEMENTS

CHAPTER IV THE BALANCE SPRING AND WATCH ESCAPEMENTS

CHAPTER V GENERAL MECHANISMS

CHAPTER VII TEMPERATURE COMPENSATION

CHAPTER VIII THE CHRONOMETER AND FAMOUS ENGLISH HOROLOGISTS

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