December 1997
Abstract
Volume 139 no.12
A real scoop this month. A cover picture of John Harrison working on H2! Not quite authentic, it is one
of a number of illustrations from a feature 'The Making of Longitude', an account of the making of a film
of the Harrison story for television (to be an Horizon Special in the UK and on Public Service TV in the
US). Martin Burgess tells how making escapement models to illustrate a talk for schoolboys. John Robey
describes a pull-repeat mechanism on an Irish bracket clock and Richard Good writes about the Millennium.
Two books reviews, several readers' letters and the index for volume 139 complete this issue.
Table of Contents
Feature
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412-414 The Making of 'Longitude' by Adam Clarke
Articles
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404-405 The Millennium and Other Topics by Richard Good
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409-411 The Old Escapement Models, by Martin Burgess
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415-419 An Irish Pull-Repeat Mechanism by John A Robey
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427-431 Index to Volume 139
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