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Thomas Tompion, FRS (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the "Father of English Clockmaking". Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the world, and can command very high prices whenever outstanding examples appear at ...
Thomas Tompion (baptized July 25, 1639, Ickwell Green, Northill, Bedfordshire, Eng.—died Nov. 20, 1713, London) was an English maker of clocks, watches, and scientific instruments who was a pioneer of improvements in timekeeping mechanisms that set new standards for the quality of their workmanship.
30 de oct. de 2023 · Los dos cronógrafos fueron fabricados por el famoso relojero londinense Thomas Tompion (1639-1713). Cada reloj contaba con un tipo de mecanismo diferente para garantizar que los astrónomos pudieran conocer la hora exacta en que efectuaban sus observaciones celestes.
This eight-day clock with anchor escapement and 11.4 seconds-beating pendulum is numbered 344. Although the seconds-beating long pendulum (approximately 39 inches in length) became standard for longcase clocks in the late seventeenth century, a few clockmakers experimented with longer pendulums.
Thomas Tompion, (baptized July 25, 1639, Northill, Bedfordshire, Eng.—died Nov. 20, 1713, London), British clockmaker. Working closely with Robert Hooke and Edward Barlow, he made one of the first English watches with a balance spring and patented the cylinder escapement.
Learn about the history and features of a rare and complex clock made by Thomas Tompion, a prominent English clockmaker of the 17th century. The clock has a dial with calendrical, lunar, and tidal indications, and a case with marquetry and oystershell-cut veneer.
Traveling clock watch with alarm. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 509. This movement represents an early, short-lived experiment: the newly invented balance spring. Tompion omitted a fusee—a cone-shaped device used to even out the force in the timekeeping mechanism as the spring unwinds.
