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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
Herbert Scott was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1865 and died in 1943. He took out a patent in 1902, No. 10,271, which was an attempt to utilise the principle of the Hipp toggle for impulsing a pendulum. Unfortunately the position at which the pendulum received the impulse was about half way between the maximum arc of swing and the centre position which was not a good point at which to impulse a pendulum if one is to achieve good timekeeping. Scott made two types of these models of which this is the earlier type.
Scott's clocks were marketed by the Ever Ready Company
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
Herbert Scott was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, in 1865 and died in 1943. He took out a patent in 1902, No. 10,271, which was an attempt to utilise the principle of the Hipp toggle for impulsing a pendulum. Unfortunately the position at which the pendulum received the impulse was about half way between the maximum arc of swing and the centre position which was not a good point at which to impulse a pendulum if one is to achieve good timekeeping. Scott made two types of these models of which this is the earlier type.
Scott's clocks were marketed by the Ever Ready Company