Machine tools for making clocks
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Authors
Dugan, David
Publication Date
2004-08-17Language
en_GB
Type
Video
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Dugan, D. (2004). Machine tools for making clocks [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/674
Abstract
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.
Keywords
mechanization
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