The complete book of trades, or, The parent's guide and youth's instructor : forming a popular encyclopaedia of trades, manufactures, and commerce, as at present pursued in England, with a more particular regard to its state in and near the metropolis : including a copious table of every trade, profession, occupation, and calling, however divided and subdivided : together with the apprentice fee usually given with each, and an estimate of the sums required for commencing business (1842)
Whittock, N. (Nathaniel), 1791-1860 · London : Printed for Thomas Tegg · leaf 163
of a clock will enable any person of common intellect to tell the use of every wheel ; it is therefore rather with a view to general information, than for the information of the Clock- maker, that we have entered upon the following description of the construction of a pendulum clock. If any person… … now, if a stout string were wound round this roller, and a weight attached to the end of the string, it is quite evident that the weight would, when left to itself, soon reach the ground, at the same time turning the roller a number of times in its descent ; and if a hand were placed upon the axis…
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