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Balance wheel in a cheap 1950s alarm clock... Balance wheel in a cheap 1950s alarm clock... Balance wheel in a cheap 1950s alarm clock... The balance wheel appeared with the first mechanical clocks... a balance wheel could have a larger... Early balance wheel with spring in an 18th century French watch... Early balance wheel with spring in an 18th century French watch... Early balance wheel with spring in an 18th century French watch... weaker spring would take longer to return the balance wheel back toward the center... The key was to make the balance wheel change size with temperature... The bimetallic compensated balance wheel was made obsolete in the early 1900s by advances in metallurgy... The precision of the best balance wheel watches on the wrist is around a few seconds per day... The most accurate balance wheel timepieces made were... The Balance Wheel of a Watch... The Balance Wheel of a Watch...

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mechanical watches | clocks | pendulum | pendulum clock | spring | balance spring | escapement | gear train | elasticity | oscillation | quartz | Balance wheel in a cheap 1950s alarm clock, the Apollo, by Lux Mfg. Co. showing the balance spring (1) and regulator (2). | | Foliot from De Vick clock, built 1379, Paris. | | Perhaps the earliest existing drawing of a balance wheel, in Giovanni De Dondi's astronomical clock, built 1364, Padua, Italy. The balance wheel (crown shape, top) had a beat of 2 seconds.  Tracing of an illustration from his 1364 clock treatise, Il Tractatus Astrarii. | | Giovanni De Dondi's | astronomical clock | foliot | bracket clocks | lantern clocks | moment of inertia | thermal expansion | Early balance wheel with spring in an 18th century French watch. | | balance spring | escapement | mainspring | Robert Hooke | Jean de Hautefeuille | Christian Huygens | harmonic oscillator | clock | resonance frequency | thermal expansion | elasticity | Ferdinand Berthoud | longitude | marine chronometer | John Harrison | bimetallic | Bimetallic temperature compensated balance wheel, from an early 1900s pocket watch. 17 mm dia. (1) Moving opposing pairs of weights closer to the ends of the arms increases temperature compensation.  (2) Unscrewing pairs of weights near the spokes slows the oscillation rate.  Adjusting a single weight changes the poise, or balance. | | John Arnold | Thomas Earnshaw | moment of inertia | bimetallic | Marine chronometer balance wheels from the mid 1800s, with various 'auxiliary compensation' systems to reduce middle temperature error. | | Greenwich Observatory | Low temperature coefficient alloy balance and spring, in an ETA 1280 movement from a Benrus Co. watch made in the 1950s. | | Charles Edouard Guillaume | Invar | Elinvar | Modern balance wheel (arrows), in a Chinese watch movement. | | chronometers | time locks | alarm clocks | timers | stopwatches | fuzes | quartz | watches | Glucydur | beryllium | copper | iron | Nivarox | Gyromax | marine chronometers | 2007 | 06-15 | 2008 | 04-20 | 2008 | 04-16 | 2008 | 04-16 | ISBN 0-907462-05-7 | 2007 | 06-06 | ISBN 0780800087 | 2007 | 06-15 | 2007 | 06-15 | 2007 | 05-26 | 2008 | 04-26 | 2007 | 06-19 | 1966 | ISBN 0780800087 | 2007 | 06-06 | 2008 | 04-16 | 2008 | 04-16 | 2007 | 06-06 | 2008 | 04-16 | ISBN 0-907462-05-7 | 2007 | 06-16 | 2007 | 06-15 | 2007 | 06-15 | 2007 | 06-20 | 2007 | 06-15 | Categories | Timekeeping components |
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