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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, 15 December 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976
The Eureka clock was the first successful use of an electrically maintained balance wheel for timekeeping. It was invented by Timothy Bernard Powers, an electrical engineer in the U.S.A. and patented in 1906 conjointly with Sigismund, Herman and Gustav Kutnov, the latter being manufacturing chemists whose most profitable product was aperient or laxitive powder.
After a long period of experimentation a manufactory was set up in 1909 in City Road, London. After a slow start the novelty of watching the rotating balance wheel caught on and the clock became a best seller. Such was the soothing effect of the balance wheel that it was often thought beneficial to have an example in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists!
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, 15 December 1976 - 11 April 1977, A.H.S., Ticehurst, 1976
The Eureka clock was the first successful use of an electrically maintained balance wheel for timekeeping. It was invented by Timothy Bernard Powers, an electrical engineer in the U.S.A. and patented in 1906 conjointly with Sigismund, Herman and Gustav Kutnov, the latter being manufacturing chemists whose most profitable product was aperient or laxitive powder.
After a long period of experimentation a manufactory was set up in 1909 in City Road, London. After a slow start the novelty of watching the rotating balance wheel caught on and the clock became a best seller. Such was the soothing effect of the balance wheel that it was often thought beneficial to have an example in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists!