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A French mechanical lamp for lighthouses in which a superabundance of oil is pumped to the wick tube by clockwork...
Chronograph
An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity...
Clinostat
An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk usually regulated by clockwork by means of wich the action of external agents as light and gravity on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated...
Clocklike
Like a clock or like clockwork mechanical...
Clockwork
The machinery of a clock or machinery resembling that of a clock machinery which produces regularity of movement...
Detent
That which locks or unlocks a movement a catch pawl or dog especially in clockwork the catch which locks and unlocks the wheelwork in striking...
Heliostat
An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period also a geodetic heliotrope...
Metronome
An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight It is set in motion by clockwork and serves to measure time in music...
Pendulum
A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery...
Siderostat
An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction a more general term for heliostat...
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