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Definition of Clockworks
1. clockwork [n] - See also: clockwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clockworks
Literary usage of Clockworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Berlin-Zossen Electric Railway Tests of 1903: A Report of the Test Runs by Louis Bell (1905)
"The clockworks formerly used for this purpose, making a contact every ten ...
The result was that the three clockworks installed in the two cars and at the ..."
2. Journal (1882)
"In such a case the plugs are left in S, and the clockworks stopped with the back
levers depressed. The signals can then be translated by simply moving the ..."
3. Spons' Dictionary of Engineering, Civil, Mechanical, Military, and Naval by Edward Spon, Oliver Byrne (1874)
"This method has been used in many clockworks, but it requires great accuracy in
the size of the links of the chains, otherwise slight jars are produced when ..."
4. Life and Letters of Samuel Holden Parsons: Major-general in the Continental by Charles Samuel Hall (1905)
"Within it were clockworks which could be set to spring ... The moment the magazine
was cast off from the boat, the clockworks started, and the navigator, ..."
5. The Nervous System of the Child: Its Growth and Health in Education by Francis Warner (1900)
"... the processes of thinking can go on in the brain without being expressed.1 The
hands of a clock indicate the time as we see them move; the clockworks ..."
6. Scientific & Technical Papers of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1895)
"If the clockworks went uniformly, the pointers or printers must always rest over
the same letter if they had similar positions before being started. ..."
7. Scientific & Technical Papers of Werner Von Siemens by Werner von Siemens (1895)
"By an electric current which traversed the telegraph wires, these clockworks were
simultaneously released and again stopped by breaking the current. ..."
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