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
The innocent old fusee had his faults, certainly.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
I turned my head; old Goulden struck the match, the fusee glittered, and at the same instant the bastion with its great baskets of clay shook to the very rocks of the rampart.
From The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire by Chatrian, Alexandre
