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Thoughts on the means of improving watches, and more particularly those for the use of the sea. Partly deduced from reason, and partly from the observation of effects attributed to particular causes. By Thomas Mudge.
Mudge, Thomas, 1717-1794.Date: Printed In The Year 1765- Books
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Investigations, founded on the theory of motion, for determining the times of vibration of watch balances. By George Atwood, Esq. F. R. S. From the Philosophical Transactions.
Atwood, G. (George), 1746-1807.Date: 1794]- Books
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An almanack: or, Diary astronomical, meteorological, astrological, for the year of our lord, 1723. It being the third after leap-year. Containing the eclipses of the luminaries, solar-ingresses, rising and setting of the sun, for the city of Corke. A table of the sun's declination, fit for sea-men, or others, with divers tables of good use, calculated chiefly for the famous city of Dublin, whose lat. is 53 deg. 20 min. north, and may very well serve any part of this kingdom. To which is added some surprizing paradoxes, arithmetical questions, Ænigma's &c. with marry delightful particulars, adapted for the use and diversion of both sexes. Also the method of adjusting clocks & watches, the use of the quick-silver barometer, or weather-glass; and many other things not in any of the former. By John Knapp, watch and clock-maker at Lower-End of St. Peter's-Church-Lane, on the key. Corke.
Knapp, John, Lover of the Mathematicks.Date: [1723]- Books
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A description, with plates, of the time-keeper invented by the late Mr. Thomas Mudge. To which is prefixed a narrative, by Thomas Mudge, his son, Of Measures Taken To Give Effect To The Invention Since The Reward Bestowed Upon IT BY The House Of Commons In The Year 1793; A Republication Of A Tract BY The Late MR. Mudge ON The Improvement Of Time-Keepers; and a series of letters written by him to His Excellency Count Bruhl, between the years 1773 and 1787.
Mudge, Thomas, 1717-1794.Date: 1799- Pictures
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Clocks: various views of a clock mechanism. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1810.
Date: 14 January 1810Reference: 40894i- Books
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Mercurius Anglicanus, or, The English Mercury : being a compleat diary for the year of our Lord, 1696, being bissextile or leap-year : containing monthly predictions, the old Roman or pagan kalendar, with the Gregorian or new account, the equation of time for the regulating of pendulum clocks and watches, and exact tyde-table giving an account of the times of high water, more correct and full than others, with several varieties of publick use : the like not extant / by George Parker.
Parker, George, 1654-1743Date: 1696- Books
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The mercurial chronometer improv'd: or, a supplement to a book entituled, An essay, wherein a method is humbly propos'd for measuring equal time with the utmost exactness; without the Necessity of being confin'd to Clocks, Watches, or any other Horological Movements; in order to discover the Longitude at Sea. In which all Objections that are in the least rational are remov'd, and the Method confirm'd. By the author of that essay.
Clarke, James, of Calne, Wilts.Date: MDCCXV. [1715]- Books
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Explanations of time-keepers, constructed by Mr. Thomas Earnshaw and the late Mr. John Arnold / Published by order of the Commissioners of Longitude.
Earnshaw, Thomas, 1749-1829.Date: 1806- Pictures
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Clocks: a clock face (top), and mechanism (below). Engraving by A. Bell.
Reference: 40929i- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
Date: 20 October 1809Reference: 40883i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for experiments on bearing wear. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40853i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for experiments on bearing wear. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40859i- Pictures
Clocks: a device for experiments on bearing wear. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40858i- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial [?]. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
Date: 13 October 1809Reference: 40884i- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams for setting-out a sundial [?]. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
Date: 27 September 1809Reference: 40881i- Pictures
Clocks: elevation of a machine for experiments on bearing wear. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40856i- Pictures
Clocks: elevation of a machine for experiments on bearing wear. Engraving by Benard after Bourgeois.
Bourgeois.Reference: 40857i- Books
Observations on the earliest introduction of clocks / By Daines Barrington in a letter to Justice Blackstone.
Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800.Date: [1779?]- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams for setting the dial of a sextant [?]. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, [1809].
Reference: 40882i- Books
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Mercurius Anglicanus; or The English mercury : Being a compleat diary for the year of our Lord 1697. Being the first after leap-year. Containing monthly predictions: the old Roman or pagan kalendar, with the Gregorian or new account: the equation of time, for the regulating of pendulum clocks and watches: an exact tyde-table, giving an account of the times of high water, more correct and full than others: with directions for knowing the true value of our gold and silver coins. The like not extant. / By George Parker.
Parker, George, 1654-1743Date: 1697- Books
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Mercurius Anglicanus; or The English mercury : Being a compleat diary for the year of our Lord 1697. Being the first after leap-year. Containing monthly predictions: the old Roman or pagan kalendar, with the Gregorian or new account: the equation of time, for the regulating of pendulum clocks and watches: an exact tyde-table, giving an account of the times of high water, more correct and full than others: with directions for knowing the true value of our gold and silver coins. The like not extant. / By George Parker.
Parker, George, 1654-1743Date: 1697- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams for setting-out the dial of a sextant [?]. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, [1809].
Date: 1809Reference: 40880i- Pictures
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Clocks: the mechanism of an alarm clock. Engraving after J. Farey.
Farey, John, 1791-1851.Reference: 40932i- Books
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Mercurius anglicanus, or, The English mercury : being a compleat diary for the year of our Lord 1698, being the second after leap-year : containing monthly predictions, the old Roman or pagan kalendar, with the Gregorian or new accounts, the equation of time, for the regulating of pendulum clocks and watches, an exact tide table, giving an account of the times of high water, more correct and full than others, with directions to know gold from base metals, the like not extant / by George Parker.
Parker, George, 1654-1743Date: 1698- Pictures
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Clocks: diagrams of water-clocks. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1809.
Date: 1 November 1809Reference: 40887i