escapement

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Mere weeks after the escapement, Cooke’s salmon were found as far south as Tacoma and as far north as Vancouver Island.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2023

“I took it to Performance Pattern where they did a digital scan, then we cast a new escapement in aluminum bronze,” he said.

From Washington Times • Jan. 9, 2017

For instance, the new federal rules for the Gulf of Mexico require permit holders to report to the government only “major escapement events”, defined as 10% or more of cultured fish escaping from a pen.

From The Guardian • Sep. 25, 2016

It is intended to be the first member of a family of movements incorporating both the DIAMonSIL escapement and an adjustable oscillator fitted with a silicium hairspring.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2012

Even after this, he thought up an idea for an escapement for a pendulum clock, which he described to his son Vincenzio, who actually built such a clock after Galileo died.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin