Sentence examples for escapement in from inspiring English sources
Escapement, in mechanics, a device that permits controlled motion, usually in steps.
Although Tompion abandoned production of both the dead-beat escapement in clocks and his horizontal escapement in watches, these undoubtedly influenced Graham's reintroduction of the dead-beat escapement (c. 1720) and his invention of the cylinder escapement (c. 1725).
"House" and "Garden" (no, not "House and Garden") -- first performed in Scarborough in 1999 -- interlock like the wheel and anchor of the escapement in a flawless timepiece.
Under the Song Dynasty, a water-powered armillary sphere was developed, the components of which resembled the escapement in modern watches.
When he saw the frown on my face, he said: "It's the escapement in a clock that makes it go tick tock, and in a typewriter one space at a time.
A combination of electromagnets or electromagnets and springs drives the mechanism, while an electronic circuit often coupled with a light metering system or an adjustable escapement in mechanical shutters controls the open time.
Supplementation programs boosted abundance of spawners and contributed from 5%to96%6% of spawners to escapements in supplemented HC and SJF subpopulations (Table 2).
The escapement used in the early watches was the same as that used in the early clocks, the verge.
Fig. 657 displays a rather miniature and scaled-down pic for the basics of the escapement mechanism in an illustration (from Su's book), with Needham's caption here in this quote: "The 'celestial balance' or escapement mechanism of Su Song's clockwork (Xinyi Xiangfayao, ch. 3, p. 18b)".
The longcase clock (also known as the grandfather clock) was first created to house the pendulum and works by the English clockmaker William Clement in 1670 or 1671; this became feasible after Clement invented the anchor escapement mechanism in about 1670.
The escapement design in these timepieces aims to avoid the problems associated with lubricant-related deterioration.
