Thomas Mudge was the first horologist who successfully applied it to watches in the detached form, about 1750. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
The author of the site, Ray Bates, is an antiquarian horologist in Vermont, and has this description of the bird. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
The world is a real clock work world, and to save the world, Hethor, an apprentice horologist, must wind the mainspring. From Wordnik.com. [Monty Python's Spamalot (U.S. Tour)] Reference
In other words, so far the balance of our reasoning is in favor of the club tooth escapement and to effect an intelligent division of angles for tooth, pallet and lift is one of the great questions which confronts the intelligent horologist. From Wordnik.com. [An Analysis of the Lever Escapement] Reference
Many years ago the British Government made an offer of £6,000 for a chronometer for her navy, keeping better time than the ones in use, but no European horologist ever discovered the sequel which Mr. Heinrich has now worked out to perfection, overcoming the extremes, as stated above. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
'You can't get up to see Big Ben unless you're a horologist. From Wordnik.com. [Londonist] Reference
A horologist at work inside Manchester Town Hall's clockface. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But while studying H1 in the course of doing repairs, horologist. From Wordnik.com. [The Unreasonable Man] Reference
Life had been arrested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English] Reference
Max Busser of MB&F is a horologist, and has presented a new timepiece called the Horological Machine No. 2.2. From Wordnik.com. [TREND HUNTER - The Latest Trends] Reference
Dr Taylor is an inventor and horologist - one who studies the measurement of time - and was a student at Corpus Christi in the 1950s. From Wordnik.com. ["news" via big sleep in Google Reader] Reference
Antiquarian horologist Derval has a Joseph Windmills longcase clock, 6 '9 "with 11" square dial and bird and flower marquetry, c 1690. From Wordnik.com. [Art Knowledge News] Reference
Mrs. Drabdump had an immediate vision of Snoppet, the neighboring horologist, keeping the clock in hand for weeks and then returning it only superficially repaired and secretly injured more vitally "for the good of the trade.". From Wordnik.com. [The Big Bow Mystery] Reference
Mrs. Drabdump had an immediate vision of Snoppet, the neighbouring horologist, keeping the clock in hand for weeks and then returning it only superficially repaired and secretly injured more vitally "for the good of the trade.". From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
Designed by John Tayor -- a British horologist and inventor whose thermostatic switch is incorporated in millions of electric appliance worldwide -- the clock was conceived as a tribute to another British inventor, John Harrison. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
Dr Taylor, an inventor and horologist, has put 500,000 pounds of his own money and seven years into developing the clock, which has been inspired from a design by a clock made by the legendary John Harrison, the pioneer of longitude. From Wordnik.com. [doggdot.us] Reference
Zegna, which celebrates its centennial this year, plans to introduce a series of limited-edition products to mark the event, including a watch crafted by haute horologist Girard - Perregaux, which will retail exclusively in Ermenegildo Zegna stores for about 21,500 euros. From Wordnik.com. [BusinessWeek.com --] Reference
He accordingly went boldly to the castle where the duke had established himself, and, asking for his steward, stated that he was a clockmaker from the workshop of the celebrated horologist, Master Jans Boerhoff, and could repair any clocks or watches that might be out of order. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion of the North A tale of the times of Gustavus Adolphus] Reference
So little a while ago that face had moved with every change of sentiment, that pale mouth had spoken, that body had been all on fire with governable energies; and now, and by his act, that piece of life had been arrested, as the horologist, with interjected finger, arrests the beating of the clock. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)] Reference
He is a practical horologist. From Wordnik.com. [Over My Shoulder #42: Kelly Dean Jolley on Augustine and the longing for a philosophical answer. From The Concept ‘Horse’ Paradox and Wittgensteinian Conceptual Investigations] Reference
As the renowned horologist, Pradipta K. Mohapatra who holds one of the largest collections of private watches in the country says: "In many cases watches are like diamonds and do not age. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
Like any good horologist. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893] Reference
But then i read it as horologist. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
(d) See the horologist. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4] Reference
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