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 man from the stogie sections does not, of course, fear to fire his fusee in this company and he always does it—it keeps up the steam.

From A Fantasy of Mediterranean Travel by Bayne, S. G.

The principle of the "drum and fusee" action will be understood from Fig.

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