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Examples for "pendulum clocks"
Examples for "pendulum clocks"
1Pendulum clocks are the oldest style, and are more generally introduced than any other kind.
2"Why, no; it's quite common in pendulum clocks," he told her.
1On the wall in my grandfather's house hung an ancient pendulum clock.
2The gilded pendulum clock on the scroll-carved marble mantel chimed three times.
3The pendulum clock appears to have been an invention of the Middle Ages.
4A deathly silence had fallen, a silence still measured by the pendulum clock.
5Harrison completed his first pendulum clock in 1713, before he was twenty years old.
6In the 1650s, Huygens invented the pendulum clock, which increased the accuracy of time-keeping tenfold.
7The barometer, thermometer, air-pump, pendulum clock, and the telescope had come into use in the period.
8A silence that was measured by the ticking of the old fashioned pendulum clock on the mantelpiece.
9One broke the chain which held the tiny glass-enclosed pendulum clock; the other stripped Jake Chambers's Seiko from his forearm.
10Galileo always intended to put this remarkable observation to work in a pendulum clock, but he never got around to building one.
11But while the pendulum clock was an unequalled stationary time-piece, it was useless in such unstable situations as, for example, on shipboard.
12He glanced at the face of the antique pendulum clock at the foot of the stairs and saw it was past midnight.
13Across the wall beside him was a tall pendulum clock, its movement regulated by the jointed wings and knees of a golden locust.
14It's a pendulum clock, and you know how fast a clock ticks when you take the pendulum away, and the escapement can run free.
15The pendulum clock struck slowly, its every other chime as usual setting up a sympathetic vibration in the pewter vase that stood upon the mantel.
16Pendulum clocks are the oldest style, and are more generally introduced than any other kind.
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