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For example, Peter Hele (Henlein), still a young man, fashions works that even the most learned mathematicians admire: for from only a little bit of iron he makes clocks with many wheels, which, no matter how one might turn them, show and chime the hours for forty hours without any weight, even when carried at the breast or in a handbag (purse).”
Peter Mathiesen, Copenhagen (1725–1768) [2] ... Lenzkirch Clock Co (Aktiengessellschaft fur Ukrenfabrikation) (1851-1929) factory operated by Junghans 1929-1932;
The Reverend Henry Leonard Nelthropp MA FSA, Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London 1893 and 1894. The Newgate Street clock, the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' 375th anniversary gift to the City of London. Those who have been Master of the company include the following: [10]
A younger cousin Peter Knibb (1651–79) from Farnborough, Warwickshire was apprenticed to Joseph in 1668 [3] and became a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1677. [11] John Knibb's youngest son, also called Joseph (1695–1722) [ 11 ] was apprenticed in London in 1710 and received a substantial bequest from the elder Joseph ...
The Ottoman engineer Taqi ad-Din described a weight-driven clock with a verge-and-foliot escapement, a striking train of gears, an alarm, and a representation of the Moon's phases in his book The Brightest Stars for the Construction of Mechanical Clocks (Al-Kawākib al-durriyya fī wadh' al-bankāmat al-dawriyya), written around 1565. [119]
With the arrival of a new partner, Robert Turner, in 1878, it became Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Company. Galpin was the astute business manager. [4] Petter retired in 1883 and the company then became Cassell and Company, Ltd. "The company expanded well until 1888, when Petter died, Galpin retired from managing directorship, and Turner became ...
Wimborne Minster Astronomical Clock, with a blue-green image of the Earth at centre, and the Sun rotating in the outer lighter-blue ring, and the Moon in the inner starred ring. Wimborne Minster astronomical clock is a fourteenth-century astronomical clock in Wimborne Minster in Dorset, regarded as "one of the most ancient working clocks in ...
By 1710, the Stretch clocks had not only a minute hand, but also a second hand. His earliest clocks were made of solid walnut; his later cases were of mahogany, following closely in design the clocks that were made in England during the William and Mary period. [1] The most sophisticated Peter Stretch clock found was owned by The State in ...