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  • St. John's Church, Margate, Kent. Line engraving.

    Date
    January 1811
    Reference
    18321i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Civil engineering: diagrams for setting-out a sundial. Engraving by J. Pass, 1809.

    • Pass, John, active 1797-1815.
    Date
    1809
    Reference
    45215i
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  • Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials. On plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles, and new tables. I, for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within ... 6,000 years before and after the 18th century ... II. For graduating and examining the usual lines ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson.

    • Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.
    Date
    1778
    • Books
  • Clocks: a chronometer mechanism for striking the hours. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

    • Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.
    Reference
    40772i
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  • Clocks: spring driven clock mechanism. Engraving by Prevost after G. d'Heuland.

    • Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?
    Reference
    40730i
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  • Clocks: a device for balancing cogs. Engraving by Prevost after Bourgeois.

    • Bourgeois.
    Reference
    40868i
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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
    • Books
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  • Trinity College, Cambridge: Great Court. Etching.

    Reference
    16289i
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  • Clocks: a chronometer mechanism. Engraving by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.

    • Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.
    Reference
    40762i
    • Pictures
  • Catalogue of the very celebrated ... collection of regulators, clocks, chronometers, and watches ... the property of ... the Duke of Sussex; which ... will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson ... on Tuesday, July the 4th, 1843.

    • Augustus Frederick, Prince, Duke of Sussex, 1773-1843.
    Date
    1843]
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