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.: James Gowland

From Graces Guide

27. GOWLAND, JAMES, 52 London Wall — Inventor and Manufacturer.

Improved free pendulum regulator, for the isochronal division of time.

Patent tourbillon remontoir chronometer, in which the impulse is imparted to the balance through the balance spring, its stud being advanced one degree or tooth of the locking-plate at each oscillation.

Large model of the escapement.

Model of Earnshaw's escapement.

Skeleton clock with improved compensation pendulum. Model of an improved anemometer and wind-dial and vane; and of an electric clock.

Various specimens of watches, including gold keyless hunting lever watch, winding and setting the hands through the pendant, and also unlocking the cover of the case by the same means.

A gold keyless repeater, indicating the hours, quarters, and minutes, etc.

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