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Definition of Lantern wheel
1. Noun. A small pinion having cylindrical bars instead of teeth, used chiefly in inexpensive clocks.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lantern Wheel
Literary usage of Lantern wheel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1907)
"The water wheel cogs are to the lantern wheel about as 20 to one. In the heading
machines some work by the same & other by two powers to seize & to flatten ..."
2. The Diary of William Bentley: Pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts by William Bentley, Joseph Gilbert Waters, Marguerite Dalrymple, Alice G. Waters, Essex Institute (1907)
"The water wheel cogs are to the lantern wheel about as 20 to one. In the heading
machines some work by the same & other by two powers to seize & to flatten ..."
3. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1913)
"This escapement has a dead-beat action. 107. lantern wheel ... An old-fashioned
type of escapement, in which the escape wheel is a lantern wheel, ..."
4. A Text-book of Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering by Andrew Jamieson (1903)
"When the pius are fixed between two discs we then obtain what is called a lantern
wheel; a form of wheel now rarely used, except in clock and watch ..."
5. Technological Dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"mafia, magic lantern. — de la Santa Barbara (mar.) powder room lantern.
— jf/ч'А'л (mec.) lantern wheel and pinion - Je resorte (w ) spring wheel. ..."
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