fusee
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Thus, the fusee equalized the force of the spring on the wheels of the timekeeper.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
The importance of the fusee should not be underestimated: it made possible the development of the portable clock as well as the subsequent evolution of the pocket watch.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
The railroad explained that the West Coast Champion's fireman had gone down the track to set a fusee, had stumbled and destroyed his only one.
From Time Magazine Archive
But while the mainspring, when fully wound, turns the fusee by uncoiling the string from the smallest part of the fusee, it gets the advantage of the larger radius as its energy becomes lessened.
From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams
Before we lighted the fusee, I discovered a large copper caldron which I thought I might save.
From The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island by Jean Rudolph Wyss
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