"A practical manual on cleaning, repairing and adjusting: embracing information on the tools, materials appliances and processes employed in clockwork. -with upwards of one hundred illustrations."
Chapters include various clocks described, pendulums: the controllers, escapements commonly used, deWyck's and German clocks, examining and cleaning an eight-day clock, repairing an eight-day clock, French timepieces, and lathes and turning appliances.
Is this the greatest clock book ever written? Far from it. But it is a fun, detailed, informative little book from 1889.
Price: $7.75
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