escapement
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Other preliminary hatchery escapements Sept. 6-19 were seven coho at Samish; 49 at Baker Lake; 116 at George Adams; five at Voights Creek; 570 at Minter Creek; and one at Dungeness.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2016
The plan is to equip all of the brand’s co-axial escapements with the anti-magnetic feature by 2017, said J.C.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2013
Longcase clocks with anchor escapements and long pendulums can keep time to within a few seconds a week.
From Scientific American • Dec. 31, 2011
Most of Codex Madrid I is filled with exquisitely fine engineering drawings: designs for self-releasing hoist grapnels, frictionless bearings, clock escapements, wire-making machines, worm drives and so on.
From Time Magazine Archive
The early escapements were all frictional escapements, i.e., the balance staff was never free from the influence of the train.
