even out the power of the mainspring: the fusee and the stackfreed. The origin of the stackfreed is unknown. It is assumed it was invented in the southern...
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Mainspring (section Stackfreed)
the early spring-powered clocks in the 15th century; the stackfreed and the fusee: The stackfreed was an eccentric cam mounted on the mainspring arbor, with...
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problem appeared with the first spring driven clocks; the stackfreed and the fusee. The stackfreed, a crude cam compensator, added a lot of friction and was...
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to do this had appeared in the first clock-watches: the stackfreed and the fusee. The stackfreed, a spring-loaded cam on the mainspring shaft, added a lot...
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constant rate as the spring ran down. This resulted in the invention of the stackfreed and the fusee in the 15th century, and many other innovations, down to...
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why all pre-balance spring watches required fusees (or in a few cases stackfreeds) to equalize the force from the mainspring reaching the escapement, to...
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release of the stored energy, led to the development of two devices, the stackfreed (which although invented in the 15th century can be documented no earlier...
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