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The development of complex mechanical clocks and the escapement


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Dugan, David 

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The need for some device to break continuous movement into discrete parts; the invention and nature of the escapement. The role of the Benedictines and particularly Richard of Wallingford and others is explained by Simon Schaffer in St. Alban’s Abbey against a reconstructed early clock.

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industrial revolution, mechanics

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