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Chronometry
The science of the measurement of time.
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marquetry
Chronometry; Clock
A type of decoration on wood made by inlaying wood veneers in elaborate designs.
marine or lever clock
Chronometry; Clock
A clock that operates with a hairspring balance and continues to run when transported or set on an uneven surface (unlike pendulum clocks); often used aboard ships.
zodiac
Chronometry; Clock
The zodiac is a broad band in the heavens, centered on the ecliptic, in which lie all the motions of the sun, moon and major planets. Since the orbits of these are in planes not ...
turret clock
Chronometry; Clock
Turret clocks are large, normally public clocks, housed in church towers, town halls, stable buildings and similar structures. A complete history of European turret-clock ...
turret-clock escapement
Chronometry; Clock
The earliest turret-clock escapements were of the verge-and-foliot type. There was the occasional variant like the one used by Richard of Wallingford, comprising two wheels on the ...
turret-clock pendulum
Chronometry; Clock
Early turret clocks used wrought-iron pendulum rods, which were forged bars of rectangular section. The rating nuts were wing nuts formed from a long thin rod wound into spirals. ...
turret-clock remontoire
Chronometry; Clock
In most mechanical clocks the source of energy, the weight, drives the escapement through a large step-up gear ratio; thus the impulse the escapement gives to the pendulum at each ...
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