fusee
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The importance of the fusee should not be underestimated: it made possible the development of the portable clock as well as the subsequent evolution of the pocket watch.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
Thus, the fusee equalized the force of the spring on the wheels of the timekeeper.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
The railroad explained that the West Coast Champion's fireman had gone down the track to set a fusee, had stumbled and destroyed his only one.
From Time Magazine Archive
The defects of the old wheel escapement of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries were, as I told you, remedied in part by the invention of the fusee, a device for equalizing the movement.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
The shaft of the fusee was attached to the large wheel that moved the gears, and the other end of the cord was fastened to the mainspring barrel.
From Christopher and the Clockmakers by William F. (William Frederick) Stecher
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