- watches,
called the
going barrel, the
mainspring is
coiled around an
arbor and
enclosed inside a
cylindrical box
called the
barrel which is free to turn...
-
barrel I.e.
without teeth, used in
fusee watches and clocks. A chain, or cord, was
wound around the
plain barrel,
connecting it to the fusee.
Going barrel...
-
Barrel racing is a
rodeo event in
which a
horse and
rider attempt to run a
cloverleaf pattern around preset barrels in the
fastest time. In collegiate...
-
wound on the
barrel. As the
mainspring runs down (Fig. 2), more of the
chain is
wrapped on the
barrel, and the
chain going to the
barrel comes off the...
- A
barrel or cask is a
hollow cylindrical container with a
bulging center,
longer than it is wide. They are
traditionally made of
wooden staves and bound...
- each with its own characteristics: The fusee-driven
movement and the
going-
barrel movement.
Besides sharing the same nationality, the
major names in the...
-
watches are also
commonly seen with
conventional going barrels and
other types of
mainspring barrels,
particularly in
American watchmaking.[citation needed]...
- to
survive going over the
falls was
school teacher Annie Edson Taylor, who in 1901
successfully completed the
stunt inside an oak
barrel. In the following...
- The
Snowtown murders (also
known as the
bodies in
barrels murders) were a
series of
murders committed by John
Justin Bunting,
Robert Joe Wagner, and James...
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gradually began to be used in
watches over the next
hundred years. The
going barrel invented in 1760 by Jean-Antoine Lépine
provided a more
constant drive...
