fusee
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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
Thus, the fusee equalized the force of the spring on the wheels of the timekeeper.
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
Many inventions were put forward by chemists before the perfecting of the common match, the wax vesta, and the fusee.
From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
The explosion was caused by a kind of fusee held in the hand which the people could not see, and taking it for a miracle they paid all that was demanded.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
