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Object numberB2954

TitleEnglish table clock made c. 1595 by Nicholas Vallin

DescriptionPlain drum clock made by Nicholas Vallin. It carries a terrestrial globe driven by a wheel of twelve teeth carried by the hour hand arbor, meshing with one of twenty-four carried on the inclined axis of the globe. The hour circle is fitted with touch pieces. The train is, crown wheel of thirty-one with a pinion of six taking into a contrate wheel of forty-eight with a pinion of ten, taking into a great wheel of sixty carrying the fusee of sixteen turns. A square stub on the axis of the great wheel which projects through the top plate carried a pinion of eight driving a wheel of sixty-four which drove the hour hand. This gives a period of twenty-four hours for the sixteen turns of the fusee. On the inside bottom cover are engraved the following owners' names: John T. Desagulier [sic]; Benjamin Franklin; James Ferguson; Kenneth McCulloch.

Production date circa 1595

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Object category2.49

Materialwood, brass, glass

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