The escapement is a conventional in-line Swiss lever type, but with all parts made from plastic, excepting the impulse pin. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: November 5, 2006 - November 11, 2006 Archives] Reference
The scientists also said that fishery management played a role in the low numbers of returning salmon - "escapement" - in 2007. From Wordnik.com. [Indybay newswire] Reference
Then I removed its escapement, which is the mechanism which controls its speed. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Mechanix] Reference
"escapement," or the freedom to get back to the ocean from the rivers, is considered vital to their survival in quantity. From Wordnik.com. [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference
I will explain what is meant by escapement and check. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
It was easier to add wheels than to regulate the escapement. From Wordnik.com. [TIME AND MEASUREMENT] Reference
For instance, this year Girard-Perregaux unveiled a new escapement. From Wordnik.com. [Style: Timing Is Everything] Reference
The correct delineation of the lever escapement is a very important matter. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
I just finished escapement and I found it to be a textbook shaggy dog story. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Escapement by Jay Lake] Reference
There is an escapement, Fig. 4, which is just the opposite to the English. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
We will again proceed with the delineation of the escapement here illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
The lever escapement is derived from Graham's dead-beat escapement for clocks. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
Yixing (c. 725), a Buddhist astronomer, invented the first known clock escapement. From Wordnik.com. [b. Political, Social, and Cultural Patterns] Reference
The motions of the latter act, through an anchor escapement, upon a system of wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
A number of years ago we constructed the escapement model which we herewith illustrate. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
This shows that the loss is greater in the equidistant than in the circular escapement. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
The pianoforte had to wait for fifty years for satisfactory regulation of the escapement. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
The check in the second action, the "paramartello," is next in importance to the escapement. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
The edge; usually applied to the shoulder of a watch spindle, particularly to the escapement. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Mechanics for Boys] Reference
Hence, the smaller the pallet and impulse angles the less will the balance and escapement be connected. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
The condensed water in the cylinder was expelled through an escapement valve by the next entry of steam. From Wordnik.com. [Steam, Its Generation and Use] Reference
We will give our method of drafting the escapement, which happens in some respects to differ from others. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
M N represents the circular course which the locking corners of the pallets take in an equidistant escapement. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
We have not noticed a draft of the lever escapement, especially with equidistant pallets and club teeth, which would act correctly in a watch. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
He had contrived means for regulating the escapement distance, and had also invented the last essential of a good pianoforte action, the check. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference
In an escapement with a total lock of 1¾° and 1¼ of shake in the slot, theoretically, the impulse would be transmitted 2° from the bankings. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
A tourbillon rotates the entire spring-energy-transmitting core of the watch (the escapement) to counter the effect of gravity on the mechanism. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Of Time] Reference
We may add that when one becomes well acquainted with the escapement, many of the angles radiating from a common center, may be drawn in at once. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
Our object will be to explain the whys and wherefores of this escapement, and we will at once begin with the number of teeth in the escape wheel. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
The double escapement action was developed to accommodate the need to quickly repeat a given note, which was an essential aspect of Liszt's technique. From Wordnik.com. [Playing the Piano] Reference
The greater the drop the deeper must be the lock; 1½° is the angle generally allowed for the lock, but it is obvious that in a large escapement it can be less. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
It will be seen that those workmen who make a practice of opening the banks, "to give the escapement more freedom" simply jump from the frying pan into the fire. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
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