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© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
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Turret clock movement by William Smith, London c.1750
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Turret clock movement by William Smith, London c.1750
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Science Museum Group / The Clockmakers' Museum
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London
Turret clock movement by William Smith, London c.1750. The movement has a wrought-iron frame, two trains of wheels, an anchor escapement and count-wheel striking. It is weight driven, but has been fitted with an electric winding system.
It is not known which church this turret clock was originally made for. Smith worked in Moorfields between c.1748 until his death in 1789. When John ‘Longitude’ Harrison designed a type of anchor escapement for a turret clock at Trinity College Cambridge in 1755, Smith was instructed to make and fit it to the clock. Smith later developed his own design of turret clock, to which he often fitted Harrison's anchor escapement.
Clockmakers' Museum No. 1377
Details
- Category:
- Clockmakers
- Collection:
- The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
- Object Number:
- L2016-2301
- Materials:
- steel (metal) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
- type:
- clock
- credit:
- Lent by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
