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" ... go exact and keep equaller time than any now made without this regulator (examined and proved before his Highness the Lord Protector by such doctors, whose knowledge and learning is without exception), and are not subject to alter by change of weather,... "
Former Clock & Watchmakers and Their Work: Including an Account of the ... - Page 102
by Frederick James Britten - 1894 - 397 pages
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Curiosities of Clocks and Watches: From the Earliest Times

Edward J. Wood - 1866 - 464 pages
...and are not subject to alter by change of weather, as others are, and may be made to go a week, or a month, or a year, with once winding up, as well...that go either with springs or weights ; and also steeple-clocks, that are most subject to differ by change of weather. Made by Ahasuerus Eromanteel,...
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Wonderful Inventions: From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph Cable

John Timbs - 1868 - 454 pages
...and are not subject to alter by change of weather, as others are, and may be made to go a week, or a month, or a year, with once winding up, as well...and also steeple clocks, that are most subject to differ by change of weather. Made by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, who made the first that were in England....
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Wonderful Inventions: From the Mariner's Compass to the Electric Telegraph Cable

John Timbs - 1868 - 448 pages
...and are not subject to alter by change of weather, as others are, and may be made to go a week, or a month, or a year, with once winding up, as well...or weights ; and also steeple clocks, that are most subtect to differ by change of weather. Made by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, who made the first that were...
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Wonderful inventions: from the mariner's compass to the electric telegraph cable

John Timbs - 1868 - 434 pages
...by change of weather, as others are, and may be made to go a week, or a month, or a year, with onre winding up, as well as those that are wound up every...and also steeple clocks, that are most subject to differ by change of weather. Made by Ahasuerus Fromanteel, who made the first that were in England....
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The Old Clock Book

N. Hudson Moore - 1911 - 484 pages
...exception), and are not subject to alter by change of weather as others are, and may be made to go a week, or a month, or a year, with once winding up, as well...that go either with springs or weights ; and also steeple-clocks, that are most subject to differ by change of weather. Made by Ahasuerus Fromantel who...
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The Knowledge Web: From Electronic Agents to Stonehenge and Back -- A

James Burke - 2010 - 294 pages
.... and are not subject to alter by change of weather as others are, and may be made to go a week, or a month, or a year, with once winding up, as well...that are wound up every day, and keep time as well." Fromanteel was referring to the development by his friend and fellow-Dutchman Christiaan Huygens,52...
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