escapement
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Escapement goal for Cowlitz is 1,718 for hatchery brood and 2,000 to the upper watershed.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 21, 2011
The Movement combines many patented devices, including American Lever, Lantern Pinion, Patent Escapement, and is a stem winder and stem setter, the same as any expensive watch.
From The Bradys Beyond Their Depth The Great Swamp Mystery by Doughty, Francis Worcester
Escapement of timepieces, 416; cylinder, 420; lever, 421, 422.
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 Williams, Archibald
In delineating this angle, Moritz Grossman, in his "Prize Essay on the Detached Lever Escapement," makes an error, in Plate III of large English edition, of more than his entire lock, or about two degrees.
Escapement friction plays an important role in the position and isochronal adjustments; the greater the friction encountered the slower the vibration of the balance.
From An Analysis of the Lever Escapement by Playtner, H. R.
