New and Complete Clock and Watchmakers' Manual 1863

by Mary L. Booth

Overview

NEW AND COMPLETE CLOCK AND WATCHMAKERS’ MANUAL (1860)

Author: Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise), 1831-1889, comp. and tr
Subject: Clock and watch making; Clock and watch making
Publisher: New York, J. Wiley
Year: 1863
Language: English

This ebook contains descriptions of the various gearing, escapements, and compensations now in use in French, Swiss, and English clocks and watches, patents, tools, etc., with directions for cleaning and repair.

Contents:

Watches
Balance Wheel or Verge and Crown Wheel
Common Seconds Hand
Breguet
Independent Seconds Hand
Repeating Clocks
Regulators
Ordinary Pendulum
Striking Hours and Quarters
Belfry
Fusee
Barrel
Stopworks
Workmanship in General
Gears
Cycloid
Epicycloid
Escapements
Balance Wheel
Cylinder or Horizontal
M. Pons de Paul
Earnshaw’s Detached
Hook
Spiral
Gearing
Inclined Plane
Pendulum and Belfry
Graham
Compensations in Watches with Circular Regulators
Destigny
Pendulum Clocks
Other Methods of Mercurial
Leroi and Arnold—Chronometer Balances
Regulator of Portable Clocks
Pendulum
Theory of the
Regulator of Stationary Clocks
Problems for Determining the Number of Teeth to be given to Wheels
Pinions
Curious and Useful Inventions

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014268219
Publisher:	Novus Vintage
Publication date:	03/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	637 KB