Having discussed the Villard drawings which are already cited in horological literature, we must draw attention to the fact that this medieval architect also gives an illustration of a perpetual motion wheel.
During the century following this horologicalexuberance in Damascus, the center of gravity of Islamic astronomy shifted from the East to the Hispano-Moorish West.
He last appeared in prominent connection with the watch and clock business as the organizer of the Swiss horological exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Illustration] TOWER OF THE WINDS—An octagonal tower north of the Acropolis of Athens spoken of as horological by Vario and Vitruvius.
A lawyer by profession, and the inventor of the gravity escapement for turret clocks; also an authoritative writer on horological subjects.
A French clockmaker famous for his turret clocks; the inventor of the pin-wheel escapement and an authoritative writer on horological subjects.
Twenty-fifth Anniversary of their entrance into the watch industry, and is offered as a contribution to horological art and science.
He devoted a great deal of time to horological pursuits.
A mechanic who would work intelligently should possess a thorough knowledge of the materials constantly used, and oil is used on every horological mechanism.
This is a rule well enough for people employed in a chronometer factory, but for the horological student such fixed rules (even if remembered) would be of small use.
This "lifting angle" is by horological writers again divided into real and apparent lifts.
The facts are, the problems relating to the club-tooth lever escapement are very intricate and require very careful analysis, and without such care the horological student can very readily be misled.
With the advantages of accurate micrometer calipers now possessed by the horological student it is an easy matter to get at the angular extent of the real lift of any cylinder.
If a horological student should construct a large model on the lines laid down in Mr. Grossmann's work, the entrance pallet would be faulty in form and would not properly perform its functions.
We do this to show the horological student the facility with which the club-tooth lever escapement can be manipulated.
There seems to be a little confusion in the use of the word "drop" in horological phrase, as it is used to express the act of parting of the tooth with the pallet.
It has been a grave fault with many writers on horological matters that they did not make and measure the abstractions which they delineated on paper.
Most writers on horological matters term this act the "lift," which name was no doubt acquired when escapements were chiefly confined to pendulum clocks.
When the horological student once arrives at this standpoint, he can intelligently apply himself to his calling.
We are treating the subject from a purely horological standpoint, and neither patriotism or prejudice has anything to do with it.
Sydney International Commission, for the largest and most complete exhibit of horological instruments examined.
His conscience began to bother him, and he began to question whether he had done right in spending so much of his time and thought on his horological research.
So that at this period Englishmen were sufficiently skilled in the production of horological instruments to consider their importation in the light of an intrusion.
It is obviously a very important requisite for good time-keeping that good horological instruments shall be intrusted to skilful and careful hands.
The stages of horological science are some of them remote, but they are well worth studying.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horological" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
