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Machine tools for making clocks


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Dugan, David 

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The importance of the machine tools needed to make the fine balance springs and other parts of the exquisite clocks from the later seventeenth century. Great precision and low tolerance of error were required. Simon Schaffer explains.

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mechanization

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