The Lever Escapement - A Guide to the Many Variations of this Crucial Element of Clock Work
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The Lever Escapement - A Guide to the Many Variations of this Crucial Element of Clock Work

  1. 40 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Lever Escapement - A Guide to the Many Variations of this Crucial Element of Clock Work

About this book

This antiquarian work contains a comprehensive guide to the many variations in the lever escapement of clocks, with information on history, manufacture, popularity, and evolution. Complete with detailed diagrams and a wealth of interesting information on the subject, this text will be of much value to the enthusiast and clock-maker, and makes for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The sections of this volume include: Double Roller Escapement, The Crank Lever, Table Roller, Two-Pin Escapement, The Double Roller, Cole's Resilient Escapement, Cole's Repellent Escapement, The Club-Tooth Lever... among others. Many older works such as this are increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that this work is being republished now, in an affordable modern edition complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. A History of Clocks and Watches
  5. Contents
  6. The Lever Escapement.