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The contrivance in a timepiece (winding wristwatch) which connects the train of wheel work with the pendulum or balance, giving to the latter the impulse by which it is kept in vibration.

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A mechanism found in devices such as a typewriter or printer which controls lateral motion of the carriage.

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An escape or means of escape.

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The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.

The number of men permitted to work in any mine not having an escapement shaft cannot, in any circumstances, exceed ten during.

The movement has a dead beat escapement with a duration of 8 days, made about 1900 - 1910 as a factory clock originally.

A series of National Byelaws are also being considered to reduce exploitation of spring salmon and enhance spawning escapement.

Invented the cylindrical balance spring and the detached detent escapement (1782 ).

It had a modified form of the anchor escapement called the ' dead beat ' escapement called the ' dead beat ' escapement.

The clock has a " dead-beat escapement " which would make it unusually accurate for a long-case clock.

The adjustable rate escapement shown in below resembles the inverse escapement in **** .

The new escapement is a modified form of anchor escapement.

Thomas Earnshaw made further simplifications, including the spring detent escapement which needed no lubrication.

However the invention of the verge escapement in Europe in the 14 th century led to a revolution in mechanical clocks.

Second hands did not become common until the anchor escapement further improved clock accuracy.

This is true, for example, of the lever escapement, where the interposition of the lever prevents recoil from affecting the balance.

It has of course deadbeat escapement with Maintaining power.

Runaway Escapement In the type of escapement shown below torque is applied to the scape wheel causing it to rotate.

Like the Wells Cathedral clock, it originally used a foliot balance with a verge escapement.

Omega introduced their revolutionary new co-axial escapement in the De Ville line in 1999.

De Ville co-axial chronograph watches use the co-axial escapement as well as chronographs, small dials which can keep track of shorter time periods.

These watches use the co-axial escapement technology and are water resistant down to as much as 330 feet, depending on the model.

Some models have the co-axial escapement movement.

In 1999 Omega introduced a De Ville watch with their co-axial escapement, hailed as a revolutionary development in watchmaking.

The co-axial escapement uses a low friction system and doesn't require lubrication, which has always posed difficulties in watch designs.

An escapement keeps the time, while the gears connect the escapement to the hands of the watch in the display.

This system of telegraphic printing has a great advantage over the step-by-step system in avoiding the necessity for the rapidly acting electric escapement, which, however skilfully planned and executed, is always liable to failure when worked too rapidly.

He is credited with the invention of the anchor escapement for clocks, and also with the application of spiral springs to the balances of watches, together with the explanation of their action by the principle Ut tensio sic vis (1676).

The motion of the fork is maintained by the clock acting through an escapement, and the dial registers both the number Koenig's of vibrations of the fork and the seconds, minutes and Tuning-fork hours.

According to a revised mining law of 1899 (subsequently amended), all mines are required to be in charge of certified mine managers, mine examiners, and hoisting engineers, when the services of the engineers are necessary; and every mine must have an escapement shaft distinct from the hoisting shaft.

In practice however the recoil escapement is often more suitable.