The American watchmaker and jeweler; an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith .. . Monk, Bishop,Archbishop and finally as Pope, being better known under the name ofSylvester H. He died May 12, 1003. GILDING. (See Electro-Plating) GIMBALS. A contrivance for securing free motion and suspensionof a ships chronometer, compass, etc., so that it may not be alTectedby the motion of the ship. It is virtually a universal joint. It wasinvented by Cardan and first applied to timepieces by Huyghens. GODDARD, LUTHER. One of the earliest manufacturers ofAmerican watches. In 1809 heo
The American watchmaker and jeweler; an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith .. . Monk, Bishop,Archbishop and finally as Pope, being better known under the name ofSylvester H. He died May 12, 1003. GILDING. (See Electro-Plating) GIMBALS. A contrivance for securing free motion and suspensionof a ships chronometer, compass, etc., so that it may not be alTectedby the motion of the ship. It is virtually a universal joint. It wasinvented by Cardan and first applied to timepieces by Huyghens. GODDARD, LUTHER. One of the earliest manufacturers ofAmerican watches. In 1809 heopened a small shop in Shrewsbury,Mass., and commenced to manu-facture watches of the verge pattern,as shown in Fig. 151, in somewhatlarger quantities than had beenattempted before. He could notcompete in price, however, with thecheap foreign watches which werethen being imported in large quan-tities, and accordingly he retired i-Vy. the business in 1817, having manufactured about 500 was the greatest number of watches ever made by any one manu-facturer in America up to this Going Barrel. 178 GOING BARREL. A barrel having teeth around its circumferencefor driving the train. All American watches are of the going barreltype. GOING FUSEE. A fusee having the maintaining power attach-ment. All modern fusees have a maintaining power which drives thetrain while the fusee is being wound. Examples of old fusees are, how-ever, occasionally met with which have no maintaining power and thewatch is stopped during the operation of winding. GOLD ALLOYS. (See Alloys.) To Distinguish Genuine from Spurious Gold. Genuine gold dis-solves in chlorine water and the solution has only a slightly yellowishcolor. Hence chlorine is a safe agent to distinguish genuine from spu-rious gold. To test the genuineness of gilt articles, rub a tiny drop ofmercury on one corner of the surface to be examined; it will produce awhite, silvery spot if the gold is pure, or if there is gold i
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