Item Description

This Ebay listing is for the sale of a CD ROM publication

of Digitized pages of Clock and Watch Work articles compiled from the Victorian era.
 

CD ROM title : Clock and Watch Work

  You can read the detailed content pages further down this page.

Sample images from this CD

This is a CD ROM containing scanned pages of  Victorian Era articles on the subject of Clock and Watch Work.

Presented in easy to view PDF file format.

Allows Zoom-in up to 300% to enlarge sections of the pages for easy reading.

Allows Printing of pages on your own printer.

Allows Copy and paste page image to other applications like word processor or image editors.

 (PDF files require PDF file reader to open and view. PDF file reader software can be downloaded for free at www. adobe. com)

 Contains 149 pages with 37 illustrations.

Contents

Introduction
Common Eight-Day Clock 

Theory of the Pendulum

Revolving or Conical

Suspension

Shape of Bob

Regulation for Time

Compensation for Temperature

Zinc and Iron (Westminster Clock)

Wood and Lead

Mercurial

Other Kinds

Compensation for Spring 

Escapements

Crown-Wheel

Anchor Recoil

Dead Escapements

Theory of

Effects of Friction

Pin-Wheel

Single-Pin

Denison’s Three-legged

Remontoire, or Gravity Escapements

Mudge’s

Theory of them

Mechanical Conditions

Bloxam’s

Denison’s 

Going Barrels

Harrison’s

Bolt and Shutter

Denison’s 

Equation Clocks 

Striking Work, Locking Plate

Repeating,

Quarters, 

Alarums,

Watchman’s Clock

Spring Clocks

American Clocks

Turret Clocks

Royal Exchange

Creat Exhibition and King’s Cross

Train Remontoires

Cast-Iron Wheels

Cathedral Clock, with Quarters

Do., on 4 Bells,

Mode of Fixing

Dials, Concave

Size of,

Illumination

Great Westminster Clock 

Electrical Dials

Shepherd’s

Dent’s

Denison’s Dial work

Clocks, Shepherd’s

Time Ball, 

Watches and Chronometers

Mainspring and Fusee,

Solid Key

Geneva Stop

Regulation of Spring

Balance Springs

Timing for position

Compensation Balance

Chronometrical Thermometer 

Secondary Compensation

Eiffe’s

Dent’s

Loseby’s 

Glass Balance Springs

Dent’s Prismatic Balance

Chronometer Trials at Greenwich 

Warch Escapements, Numerous,

Vertical

Lever

Horizontal

Duplex

Detached, or Chronometer 

Repeaters

Watches Winding without a Key

Self-Winding and Pedometers

Dial-Marker, for observations

Split seconds 

Teeth of Wheels,

Mode of describing, general rule for

Lantern pinions

Driver and Runner 

Striking Cams

Oil

Dipleidoscope

Meridian Mark

We at Rocketbrain are dedicated to finding, publishing and distributing exceptional knowledge found in rare books. It is our mission to make available valuable knowledge found in very old rare books at affordable prices and easy to use CD ROM form for today's reader.

User friendly PDF file format, the CD is Microsoft Windows as well as MAC compatible.

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