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Class 10.—PHILOSOPHICAL, MUSICAL, HOROLOGIOAL,

North, North Central, and South Central Galleries.

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90 Barling, Joseph, 90 High Street , Maidstone—Designer.

Dial of a clock, exhibiting a new pattern figure.

Table and dessert spoons and forks, ornamented in anovel manner, with enamel.

91 Vieyres & Repingon, 129 Regent Street —Manufacturers.

Two-day marine chronometer, in temporary gimbals,for the convenience of exhibition.

Gold and silver watches, of various fashions, for thehome trade and for South America .

Steel for chronometer pendulum springs, by A. Ganeral.

92 Blaylock, John, Long Island , Carlisle —Inventorand Manufacturer.

Motion-work for the hour and minute hands of a turret-clock with four dials.

Apparatus for turning on and off gas for illuminatingdials, self-acting and self-regulating for each half-year.

94 Bolton, Thomas, Coventry —Manufacturer.

German silver watches, plated with silver.

Gold-plated watch.

95 Mouillard, Pierre Fobtime Victor, 71 Albany

Street , Regent’s Park —Inventor.

The artificial leech. It is composed of a body of cylin-drical form, about three and a quarter inches long, andabout one inch in diameter. Towards the bottom endis a small cylinder, slightly flattened at its lower part,containing a small spoon of about two-thirds of an inchof elevation on its upper part, the opening of which isslightly oblique, of an oval form. This tube, including thespoon, is about two inches long by about half an inch indiameter. The other extremity of the body of the pumpis furnished with a piston, which, on being drawn back,empties the pump. This piston, being entirely drawnout to its full length, and pressed by the thumb, releasesan interior spring in which the lancets are fixed, andthese pierce the skin raised by its suction. The operationis not painful, as the lancets do not remain an instant inthe wound.

j 99 Churchill, George, Downion , near Salisbury —

| Manufacturer.

| An eight-day spring-clock, with music attached, ph*)'I ing a tune every three hours: cast and manufactured by! a blacksmith.

100 Dell Brothers, Bristol —Inventors andManufacturers.

Specimens of ordinary clock-work. Transparentpiece for the bed-room: a small light is placed bem I)(the dial, showing the time distinctly; the time-piece ha>a lever escapement, going two days. .

Specimens of iron and brass wheel-cutting, for clock*work, lathe-work, &c.; and wood-pattern cutting,cast-iron and other wheels. ,

Pianoforte music-box, playing six overtures, made b)Nicole Freres, of Geneva.

102 Driver, J., Silver Street, Wakefield — Designer

and Manufacturer. . ,

Chime-clock, showing simultaneously upon the dtfthe time in any part of the world. i

A compensating clock, with a lever escapement, a11without pendulum.

103 Edwards, James T., Dudley — Manufacturer.Portable spring time-keeper, to go 426 days.

104 Edwards, James, Stourbridge , ^

Large transparent skeleton spring timepiece, made ^a combination of brass and glass: the wheels consistcut flint-glass centres, hooped with brass teeth rims, e .graved glass dial-plate, and crystal cut pendulum bn ?it goes eight days. t

New skeleton quarter-day spring timepiece, made oi yflint-glass centres, hooped with brass teeth rims, havn’bengraved glass dial-plate, and glass pendulum ball; *goes three months, and is kept in motion by a new clockmovement propeller.

104a Gray, James, Dr., Perth —Inventor.

Medical walking-staff, containing an enema—syrm£ c ’ *catheter, a test tube and test paper, a pair of forceps?number of wax matches, and a pill-box, divided, contaiing in each division pills of various medicines.

95a Briscall, James, 48 Constitution Hill , Birmingham—Designer and Manufacturer.Self-correcting clock, with a detached lever escapement;it goes a month ; and shows the day of the week andmonth. At the end of each month, and in leap-year, itcorrects itself.

96 Brutton, Charles, Exeter —Proprietor.

A clock, in a case, which occupied thirty-four years inits completion. The movements are as follow :—movingpanorama of Day and Night; Day represented by Apolloin his car drawn by four coursers, accompanied by thetwelve Hours; and Diana in her car, drawn by stags,attended by the twelve Hours, representing Night. Twofigures which salute each other, as the panorama revolves,and the bells are ringing. Perpetual almanac, showing theday of the month on a semicircular plate, and the equationof time, regulated only once in 130 years. Circle , the indexof which shows the day of the week, with its appropriateplanet. Circle showing the leap-year, the index revolv-ing only once in four years. The sun in his course,with the correct time of rising and setting by a horizonreceding or advancing as the days shorten or lengthen;and the moon, showing her different quarters, age, &c.Two female figures, one on each side of the dial-plate,representing Fame and Terpsichore, which move in timewhen the organ plays. Movement regulating the clock asa repeater. Saturn, the god of time, who beats in move-ment when the organ plays. Circle on the face, showingthe tunes played by the organ every four hours. Belfry ,with six ringers. Bird organ, which plays when required.This clock is shown in the annexed Plate, 33. It wasmade by Jacob London.

105 Bagley, S., & Son, Livery Street , Birminghatn,Clock on carved mahogany pillar.

106 Evans, William F., Soho Street, Ilmdsicorth,

near Binnigham —Manufacturer.

Gothic skeleton clock, detached lever escapement.Elizabethan timepiece, chronometer escapement.Skeleton lever clock, with representation of Sir w aScott’s monument, Edinburgh .

Cabin clock, detached lever escapement.

109 Gerard, Alex., Gordon’s Hospital , Aberdeen -—

Inventor. tet \

“Spherical trigonometer,” or an instrument a 5j a b ciJ lto the mechanical solution of problems in spheitrigonometry and nautical astronomy. . t jj<»

Portable, or field transit instrument, for findingtime on shore, laying down meridian lines, &c. . ^

Water-meter, for registering the quantity without mrupting the pressure.

Clock, with conical pendulum.

Marine clock, with two pendulums. , i e of

A centrifugal, or conical pendulum clock; capanperforming much heavy work with great accuracy*

113 Hart, William, & Co., Christchurch , Hants

Manufacturers. t siz eS *

Chronometer and watch fusee chains, of differen

115 Lawrence, I., North Curry , near TauntonInventor.

Sun-dial, to suit any latitude in the nortnc ^ J>0 psphere. Hand-drill. Turner’s centre, with n' lClers. Spring screw-wrench. Dividers.