1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: John Bennett
1. BENNETT, JOHN, 65 Cheapside — Inventor and Manufacturer.
A regulator, which beats half-seconds, with mercurial pendulum; adapted for reading-rooms, railway stations, and other places where an exact time-keeper is required at a small expense, and where economy of space is an object.
Hall clock—in a carved oak case, of new design; chiming the quarters, and striking the hours on a gong.
Finished specimen of marine chronometer.
Model watch, on a magnified scale; constructed to show the most compact form of the modern watch, with all the recent improvements; to which is attached a peculiar mode of regulation, by which the wearer, with one touch of the regulator (fixed on an endless screw) can correct any variation of time.
Model watches in gold cases for pocket use; jewelled in thirteen holes. Comprising, in a simple form, essentials for its correct performance in all climates; with a gold chain of new design. Exhibited to show the introduction of a variety of ornamental detail, coloured by means of different bases of alloy, without the aid of either enamel or precious stones.
Time-keeper, for railway guards, constructed to combine cheapness, strength, and exact performance.
Specimens of standard thermometers, with ivory and box-wood scales.
Bennett's registered illuminated night timepiece, attached to a Palmer's candle lamp, by the burning of which a spring gives motion to the hands of the dial with great exactness.
Carriage clock, in rosewood case, with detached lever escapements and compensation balance.
A regulator, beating dead seconds, with mercurial pendulum, in the simplest form of case and movement compatible with strict nicety of performance.
Cathedral clock dial of plate-glass, and of new design; weather-proof; with a movement in action.
A wind dial in action from a vane above the roof of the Exhibition Building, with a self-recording machine for registering the wind's force.