‘Instead of a verge and foliot escapements they used a device called a balance wheel, which swung back and forth regulating the motion of the gears.’
‘In general, any lantern clock with a balance wheel has had its escapement restored.’
‘This oscillation is not exactly a parallel to the balance wheel and hairspring of a clockwork watch, but the fact is that both use oscillations to keep track of passing time.’
‘Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.’
‘Hooke used the natural oscillation of a spring to control the balance of a clock and some years later Huygens also experimented with a balance wheel and spring assembly which can still be found in mechanical wrist watches.’
‘The timing mechanism is usually some form of tuned oscillator, such as a pendulum, a balance wheel (which rotates back and forth), or a quartz crystal (which vibrates).’
‘Huygens also developed the balance wheel and spring assembly that is still found in some wristwatches today.’
‘‘We are here,’ Futanri continued, her voice like the shriek of meteorites in atmosphere, ‘to examine the shifting of the balance wheel.’’
‘Hill writes, ‘Enthusiasm is the vital quality that arouses you to action, while self-control is the balance wheel that directs your action so that it will build up and not tear down.’’
‘It thus made a perfect balance wheel to ‘manly emotion,’ which consisted of powerful and urgent passions.’
‘The alloys are used in a variety of products, such as ball bearings, springs, balance wheels in watches, surgical instruments, electrical contacts, and astronomical mirrors.’
‘The American light-vehicle buyers, with their economic balance wheels cheerfully clicking away, have embraced the lower transaction prices, not by saving, but by buying bigger and fancier units.’
‘Fashioned with loving care from pure gold, enhanced with jewels to make the fine springs and tiny balance wheels work better and longer, I began working in 1900 as a gentleman's pocket watch.’
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