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2. Clockmaker - Wikipedia

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   Clockmaker. A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks. Since almost all clocks are now factory -made, most modern clockmakers only repair clocks. Modern clockmakers may be employed by jewellers, antique shops, and places devoted strictly to repairing clocks and watches. Clockmakers must be able to read blueprints and ...

3. Simon Willard - Wikipedia

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   The clock was to be a turret one and would be placed into the university's rotunda. Jefferson provided all of the clock's plans and specifications. According to these plans, Willard precisely assembled all the clock's pieces. The clock was installed in 1827. Jefferson, however, did not live to see the operating clock because he died in July, 1826.

4. Ring binder - Wikipedia

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   A ring binder, folded. Ring binders (loose leaf binders, looseleaf binders, or sometimes called files in Britain) are large folders that contain file folders or hole punched papers (called loose leaves). These binders come in various sizes and can accommodate an array of paper sizes. These are held in the binder by circular or D-shaped ...

5. List of clock manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   German clockmakers. Johann Baptist Beha (1815–1898) Gustav Becker Clock Company; Freiburg in Schlesien, Silesia (1850–1938) Florn. Thomas Haller (Thomas Haller AG), Schwenningen (1880-1900) then merged with Junghans. Thomas Ernst Haller (Haller AG), Schwenningen (1902-1928) then merged with Kienzle.

6. Movement (clockwork) - Wikipedia

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   Movement (clockwork) In horology, a movement, also known as a caliber or calibre (British English), is the mechanism of a watch or timepiece, as opposed to the case, which encloses and protects the movement, and the face, which displays the time. The term originated with mechanical timepieces, whose clockwork movements are made of many moving ...

7. Torsion pendulum clock - Wikipedia

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   A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with three or four chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring (also ...