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Two-Wheel Clock, English, c. 1800

Inventory Number 41347


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.41347

Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by William E. Moss in 1939. He purchased it in Liverpool about 1910, and was told that it had come from the Isle of Man.
Object type
Clock
Dimensions
Height: 260mm Width: 200mm Depth: 355mm
Inventory No
41347
Accession Number
1939-13

Description

Anchor escapement with unusual arborless drum moving between three smooth wheels. The minute wheel is geared to two inwardly turned cogs within the hour wheel, and by a Hook universal joint to the minute hand.