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  <dc:title>Clock, Perpetual</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of a scheme for a perpetual watch or clock by J Smeaton, invented and wrote down, 1741. December 24th.
Manuscript and sketch, two leaves. Ink.

Inscribed in the hand of John Farey: This is a copy of one of the earliest of Mr Smeaton's papers. A clock in Coxes Museum on this principle, but constructed in a better manner with a column of mercury in glass. See Nicholson's Journal, quarto, III [1779], 126, and octavo 9 , 1804. 212. Mechanical Magazine 10 [1828], 273</dc:description>
  <dc:date>1741</dc:date>
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