Brocklesbury Park clock mechanism. Partial view of the lubrication-free 'grasshopper' escapement invented by the clock's designer,the English clockmaker John Harrison (1693-1776). This clock was built in around 1722,and is still keeping good time nearly 300 years later. Harrison is famous as the inventor of the marine chronometer that solved the problem of determining longitude at sea. Brocklesbury Park is in Lincolnshire,UK | |
Lizenzart: | Lizenzpflichtig |
Credit: | Science Photo Library / Hart-Davis, Adam |
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