Sentence examples for escapement that from inspiring English sources
Denison's principal contribution was a novel gravity escapement that imparted unprecedented accuracy to the clock.
The watch has what Journe calls its High-Performance Bi-axial Escapement, a patented two-wheel direct impulse escapement that functions without oil and is the only direct impulse escapement to start up on its own.
In 1851, in association with Sir George Airy (then astronomer royal) and the clock maker Edward John Dent, Denison undertook the design of the clock for the tower of the Houses of Parliament; Denison's principal contribution was a novel gravity escapement that imparted unprecedented accuracy to the clock.
To estimate the length distribution of fish that escaped to the Wood River, daily estimates of proportion of fish at length (based on daily in-river sampling of 80 100 fish) were weighted by the numbers of fish in the escapement that day (estimated by 24 h visual sampling at the Wood River counting tower; Woody 2007).
It is the energy stored in the mainspring and fed to the balance through the wheel train and escapement that maintains the oscillations.
He also battled for 20 years to gain recognition for his invention of a coaxial escapement that Omega now uses across its range.
Their latest, the Quatour (which kind of sounds like a character from Total Recall), is a watch with four separate escapements that average each other out as the watch is worn.
Especially when it comes down to escapement mechanisms that yield better chronometric results, combined with longevity, tourbillons, split seconds chronographs, or perpetual calendars.
This wild printable clock doesn't have a working escapement yet (that's in the works) but it does prove that you can build complex mechanical objects using MakerBots.
Reliable arming delay performance was achieved by applying a runaway escapement system that operates by a rack-and-pinion motion.
When a force is applied to the buckle on one half of the strip—via one of two escapement wheels that draw power from the mainspring it instantly snaps to being buckled in the other direction.
