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The artificial clock-maker : a treatise of watch and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned : also the history of clock-work, both ancient and modern, with other useful matters never before published

Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735, Mynde, James, 1702-1771, Knapton, James, -1738 · 1696 · London : Printed for James Knapton ... · 2 pictures

A London treatise of 1696 by William Derham, with plates engraved by James Mynde and published by James Knapton, explaining clock and watch movements to non-specialists. The first picture is a labelled engraved plate of interlocking gear trains, drive wheels and weights drawn in flat, precise line, a useful reference for mechanical diagram or technical illustration work; the second image is a loose hand-drawn stroke with no relation to the book.

Clocks and watches

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