Clockmakers in the Middle Ages for centuries tried with more or less success to make clocks that would run by means of weights.
The truth is, clockmakers throughout Europe were trying at the same time to make the best of the discoveries of Galileo, and several of them about the same time constructed clocks with pendulums.
Years afterward we find this distinction still maintained, and discover old clockmakers speaking of a clock that did not strike merely as a timekeeper.
And I suppose all the other clockmakers promptly began to copy it," interposed Christopher.
Usually clockmakers either started only three or four or else began none until they received advance orders.
And when you consider that with this crude equipment you were expected to turn out a mechanism delicate enough to tell time, I am sure you will agree the stern old clockmakers had something on their side.
There were good clockmakers in both New York and Philadelphia by the year 1750.
This explains why so many of the early clockmakers devoted such a degree of energy and skill to fashioning all sorts of pantomimes to be enacted by miniature figures at certain hours.
Records show that a great many of the best clockmakers belonging to the Clockmakers' Company were, or had formerly been, blacksmiths.
Nevertheless, the clockmakers were a stern, tyrannical lot.
The jealous old clockmakers kept their eye on those who were manufacturing clocks, I can tell you.
New England, where many of the first clockmakers had originally settled, led the country in this industry as was natural she should, more improvements and inventions being perfected there than anywhere else.
The religious figures disappeared together with the elaborate pantomimes that accompanied them, and the clockmakers directed their energies to making the clock primarily a time-telling agency.
And all this time while clockmakers were fussing round about bobs and pendulums, did the people have to keep on running to the cathedral or the public square to find out what time it was?
Evidently there were clockmakers who worked on that theory," was McPhearson's dry answer.
The advent of table clocks came with the discovery of the use of a mainspring by the Nuremberg clockmakers in the sixteenth century.
The work of the oldclockmakers was that of the very best.
Brass was used from the commencement of clockmaking for wheels and dials; and wonderfully, too, the early clockmakers cut and carved the metal into the required form and gauged the works with accuracy.
In 1368 three Dutch clockmakerswere invited to come to England to teach the business to native workers, though "Dutch clocks" and their makers were held in contempt some years later.
It was not till 1639 that Galileo published his discovery of the isochronous property of the pendulum, which was eight years after the incorporation of the London Clockmakers Company.
Later in the century the passion for rococo ornament seized the clockmakers too, and during the reign of George III.
There were at least four clockmakersby this name, Simon, Aaron, Benjamin, and Simon Jr.
The first American clocks were made of wood, and most of the early clockmakers were at first carpenters.
Nelthropp to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London and exhibited at Guild Hall Museum.
Watch and clockmakers belonged to the Blacksmiths' Guild in England until 1631, when the Clockmakers' Company was formed.
We have seen clockmakers developing from priests and astronomers and blacksmiths and locksmiths and jewelers; but here is a new gateway to the trade.
Most of theclockmakers here actually work fourteen hours a-day.
We are in the district inhabited by the clockmakers of the Black Forest, a wooded and mountainous tract of country, where its streams on one side flow towards the Rhine, and on the other to the Donau, which has its source not far from this.
On examining the nature of this profitable work, the master clockmakers perceived that one part of the bobbin net machines, that which held the bobbins, could easily be made in their own workshops.
In 1631 the Company of Clockmakerswas incorporated in England by Charles I.
Clockmakers and watchmakers very soon specialized when the correct standard had been reached, and further inventions effected economy in mechanism rather than drastic changes in principle making for further exactitude.
In the middle of the seventeenth century, as in England at a slightly previous date, clockmakers formed themselves into trade guilds.
The great English clockmakers of the first flight "were not of an age but for all time.
Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London, by Samuel Elliott Atkins and Henry Overall, F.
The following list of names of Newcastle and other clockmakersin the North of England is produced by the kindness of C.
The metal-workers of Scotland have always been renowned, and at the above dates clockmakers were eligible to enter the Hammermen's Incorporations as affiliated with the craft of locksmith, which was of ancient lineage.
Random examples of a few of the more prominent clockmakers are Joseph Hopkins, a wood turner; Chauncey Jerome, who had been apprenticed to a wood turner; and Silas Hoadley, who had worked with a cabinet maker.
Connecticut The clockmakers who worked in Connecticut during the span of the 18th century numbered almost a hundred.
Maryland and Virginia Brief mention has already been made of the Chandlee family of clockmakers and instrument makers of the 18th century.
John Wood of Philadelphia was a wholesale supplier of parts for clockmakers and watchmakers.
Among these were to be found a substantial number of artisans trained as clockmakers who subsequently produced scientific instruments to meet the surveying and nautical needs of their communities.
Some of the leading American 18th-century clockmakers served apprenticeships with Harland.
A comprehensive study of surviving instruments and related records has revealed that only a few of the many clockmakers working in the American Colonies in the 18th century made mathematical instruments.
I have been in Nuremberg and know most of the guild of clockmakers by name.
But, Herr Doctor, you are aware that I sought by every means in thy power, to induce all the clockmakers in our district, to enter into an association.
Poor clockmakers went up and down the village, complaining that the Landlord had robbed them of months and years of their lives, and they would all have been ready to swear that he was the most upright man in the whole country, far or near.
What have those stupid clockmakers to do with the matter?
Did you want to unite the clockmakers in an association?
What in his days of prosperity he could not succeed in accomplishing was effected now as by tacit agreement; the various independent clockmakerswere united in a general association.
He urged the clockmakers either to contribute a share to the new manufactory or to set up one of their own.
Poor clockmakers walked up and down the village street in despair, complaining that the landlord had been stealing months and years of their life all the while they were upholding him as the most honorable man in the country.
Nevertheless," she added, "the engineer and the doctor's son will grow rich while the clockmakers think themselves lucky to be allowed to keep on in their former ruts.
The priest wished to produce a clock such as the world had never seen before, such as the greatest scientists and clockmakers of all time had never been able to make.
His apprenticeship over, Bertolla returned to his native region where he soon established a reputation for himself as one of the most skillful clockmakers in the Tridentina and produced timepieces of fine quality in some quantity.
This combination of five clerical clockmakers who lived in the same region during the same period of time is sufficiently unusual.
Strange that those old clockmakers could make clocks to last so long, but couldn't keep their own life-springs running half the time!
These old clockmakersmade their clocks to keep perfect time, and outlast Time himself!
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