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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, December 1976 - April 1977.
Alan & Rita Shenton, Collectable clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1985, p.370, fig.404
The Ever Ready Specialities Company manufactured the Ever Ready electrically propelled clock based on patents taken out by Herbert Scott in 1902.
Herbert Scott was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1885 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 the 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 the pendulum if one is to achieve good timekeeping
Charles K. Aked, Electrifying Time, catalogue of an exhibition held at the Science Museum, December 1976 - April 1977.
Alan & Rita Shenton, Collectable clocks, Antique Collectors' Club, 1985, p.370, fig.404
The Ever Ready Specialities Company manufactured the Ever Ready electrically propelled clock based on patents taken out by Herbert Scott in 1902.
Herbert Scott was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1885 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 the 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 the pendulum if one is to achieve good timekeeping