Sentence examples for mainspring to from inspiring English sources

The principal technology that creates this intermittent movement is the Geneva watch movement, in which a four-slotted star wheel, or "Maltese cross," converts the tension of the mainspring to the ticking of toothed gears.

The watch uses the mainspring to power these Antikythera registers, adding life and vibrancy to what would have once been a hand-cranked navigational system.

Watch winder performs simple task and give tension to mainspring for keep spinning.

Watch Blogger and horology genius died on May 12. His insight and research into everything from Omegas to mainsprings made him one of the most important names in this business.

A fracture mechanics approach to some aspects of mainspring behaviour is promising.

"It is like a watch without a mainspring.

The movement, called the Sistem51, is made of 51 simple parts and has a weight that winds the mainspring.

Until the time, it's on your arm, rotor keep spinning which winds the mainspring.

It is the energy stored in the mainspring and fed to the balance through the wheel train and escapement that maintains the oscillations.

With this arrangement, the mainspring was made to rotate a barrel in which it was housed; a length of catgut, later replaced by a chain, was wound on it, the other end being coiled around the fusee.

There are many more twists and turns in the story's elaborate exposition and Jennie's complex backstory, and it takes what seems like more than half the movie's hundred and ten minutes to get to the mainspring of the plot.