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Thomas Kefford (baptised 18 March 1686, in Royston) (fl. 1710–1750), was a noted English clockmaker doing business at The Dial, Fore Street, Royston, Hertfordshire. Thomas was the son of Thomas Kefford (also a clockmaker) and Mary Fordham, and was one of 4 siblings baptised at Royston.
George Graham (7 July 1673 – 20 November 1751) a partner of Thomas Tompion; Frank Hope-Jones (1867-1950) Joseph Johnson; Liverpool (1795–1827) Thomas Kefford (fl. 1710–1750). [6] Joseph Knibb - Born 1640 Claydon, Oxfordshire Died 1711; George Littlewort; London (fl. 1826–48) Metamec (1947-1984) Newgate Clocks; Shropshire (1991–present)
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Domestic clocks and watches were mostly imported or the work of immigrants from the European continent. Because turret clock making involved working in ferrous metal, clockmakers within the City of London tended to be freemen of the Blacksmiths’ Company, though some were members of other livery companies, notably the Clothworkers. [4]
The first clock known to strike regularly on the hour, a clock with a verge and foliot mechanism, is recorded in Milan in 1336. [96] By 1341, clocks driven by weights were familiar enough to be able to be adapted for grain mills, [97] and by 1344 the clock in London's Old St Paul's Cathedral had been replaced by one with an escapement. [98]
The Clock Maker Theory and the watchmaker analogy describe by way of analogy religious, philosophical, and theological opinions about the existence of god(s) that have been expressed over the years. During the 1800s and 1900s, clocks or watches were carried around as a form of flaunting social status .
Johann Gottfried Sechting (1749–1814), German clockmaker, student of Hahn, astronomical clock. Thomas Earnshaw (1749–1829), English clock and chronometer maker, London, marine chronometer. Antoine Tavan (1749–1836), Swiss watchmaker, Geneva, Präzisionstaschenuhren. John Wilter, fictitious name used on many Dutch forgeries.
In 1826, Thomas Jefferson requested that Simon Willard build a clock for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. 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.