New and Complete Clock and Watchmakers' Manual: Comprising Descriptions of the Various Gearing, Escapements, and Compensations Now in Use in French, ... Clocks and Watches, Patents, Tools, Etc

Among the mechanical arts, there is none more useful than that of horology, yet there are few less understood, or less practised in this country. Notwithstanding the great demand for time-pieces of various kinds, and the very general interest manifested in them by their owners, there are but few treatises on the subject in the English language, and those few too costly to be accessible to the million, while the most of the movements are imported from Europe instead of being manufactured by our own mechanics. But of late, more interest has been manifested, American clocks have won a world-wide reputation, and the manufacture of American watches has been attempted with a marked success, which augurs well for the future. It cannot be doubted that there is native ability enough among our artisans to execute superior workmanship; the point in question is to afford it facilities for development equal to those enjoyed by other nations.

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Table of Contents:

Copyright

GENERAL INDEX.

COMPILER'S PREFACE.

EXPLANATION OF PLATES.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. WATCHES.

CHAPTER II. OF CLOCKS.

CHAPTER III. OF LARGE OR BELFRY CLOCKS.

CHAPTER IV. THE WORKMANSHIP OR EXECUTION IMPORTANT PARTS OF TIMEPIECES.

CHAPTER V. OF GEARINGS.

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