Balance wheel escapement - animation

Files

balanceWheelEscapement6.swf (15.7 KB)

Date

2011-03-19T00:00:00Z

Authors

Ceperley, Peter

Abstract

The balance wheel escapement is used in almost all mechanical watches. This animation shows one of the more common varieties of this escapement.

Description

This animation requires Adobe flash

Keywords

Physics, Technical animation, Balance wheel escapement, History of clocks, How clocks work, Time pieces

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/1920/6194
https://doi.org/10.13021/MARS/3663

Collections

Research, Department of Physics and Astronomy