Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,689 pages of information and 247,075 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: Isaac Rix

From Graces Guide

74. Rix, ISAAC, 21 Conduit Street, Westbourne Terrace — Inventor.

Skeleton chronometer time piece, slow motion, beating only once in three seconds; the escapement so contrived as to allow the pendulum to vibrate two seconds every beat without touching anything; a perfectly dead escape.


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