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Animation showing operation of an anchor escapement The anchor and escape wheel of a late 19th-century clock. The plate that normally holds the front end of the pinions has been removed for clarity. The pendulum is behind the back plate. In horology, the anchor escapement is a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks.
Deadbeat escapement [37] diagram showing escape wheel (a), pallets (b), and pendulum crutch (c) The Graham or deadbeat escapement was an improvement of the anchor escapement first made by Thomas Tompion to a design by Richard Towneley in 1675, [38] [39] [40] although it is often credited to Tompion's successor George Graham who popularized it ...
An escapement is the mechanism in a mechanical clock that gives the pendulum precise impulses to keep it swinging, and allows the gear train to advance a set amount with each pendulum swing, moving the clock hands forward at a steady rate. The Riefler escapement was an improvement of the deadbeat escapement, the previous standard for precision ...
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File:Graham_Escapement.png licensed with PD-old 2007-11-01T07:13:25Z Chetvorno 853x1031 (29252 Bytes) == Summary == {{Information |Description=Drawing of a Graham, or deadbeat, clock escapement. Alterations: Removed captions and labels, replaced labels in color, moved arrow from top of wheel to side, drew in pendulum rod.
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Deadbeat, deadbeats or dead-beat may refer to: Deadbeat escapement , a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks Dead-beat control , a problem in discrete control theory of finding an optimal input sequence that will bring the system output to a given setpoint in a finite number of time steps