I: Finding and keeping time: from stars to pendulum
II: The birth of accurate timekeeping: the Royal Observatory
III: Solar, mean solar and the equation of time, sidereal, local, and Greenwich mean time
IV: Factors affecting the isochronicity of a pendulum
V: Compensated pendulums
VI: Escapements
VII: Electric clocks
VIII: Pendulum clock precision, 1750-1960
IX: Thomas Tompion and George Graham
X: John Harrison
XI: John Shelton,Thomas Mudge and William Dutton
XII: John Ellicott and Alexander Cumming
XIII: John Arnold, John Roger Arnold, and Arnold & Dent
XIV: The regulators of Thomas Earnshaw and George Margetts
XV: The Vulliamys
XVI: The spring pallet: escapements of Hardy and Reid
XVII: James Ferguson, Benjamin Martin, Henry Ward, Joseph Banister, William Congreve, William George Schoof, and Thomas Cole
XVIII: Robert Molyneux, the Condlif's, Thomas lLeyland, Henry Walsh, and Thomas Cooke
XIX:The Frodshams
XX: E.J. Dent & his successors, including the work of Brock
XI: The Georgian and Regency period
XXII: Victorian regulators, including the gravity escapement
XXIII: Wall and table regulators.
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Precision pendulum clocks : the quest for accurate timekeeping by Derek Roberts. ISBN 0764316362. Published by Schiffer in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
