A Congreve clock (also known as Congreve's Rolling Ball Clock or Oscillating Path Rolling Ball Clock) is a type of clock that uses a ball rolling along...

A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals...

Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet KCH FRS (20 May 1772 – 16 May 1828) was a British Army officer, Tory politician, publisher and inventor. A pioneer in...

Industrial Revolution in the United States. August 24 – William Congreve patents the Congreve clock with a rolling ball regulator. Bryan Donkin patents a steel...

clock, which used pennies instead of balls. Congreve clock Weingarten, Gene (25 February 2007). "A Clock and Ball Story". The Washington Post. Retrieved...

was patented by William Congreve. It is on display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. He made a sidereal clock for the City Observatory...

answered. Hirzhorn is currently building one of Keith's designs, a Congreve clock, and jumps at the chance to help him in return. Hirzhorn arranges for...

took up horology and constructed several complex clocks, including an improved model of the Congreve clock. Norman Moody was made a Fellow of the Institution...

fougasses, were detonated by flintlocks. Flintlocks were also used to launch Congreve rockets. A flintlock tinder lighter, or tinder pistol, was a device that...

firearm configuration – Thorneycroft carbine Chobham armour Congreve rocket – William Congreve Depth charge Dreadnought battleship – HMS Dreadnought The...

Austrian clock producer. Frédéric-Louis Favre-Bulle (1770–1849), Swiss chronometer maker, Le Locle, marine chronometer, tourbillon. Willam Congreve (1772–1828)...

manufacture. One example was the innovative Congreve Rocket, designed and (from 1805) manufactured on site by William Congreve (son of the Comptroller of the Royal...

Colt (1814–1862), U.S. – Revolver development Sir William Congreve (1772–1828), UK – Congreve rocket George Constantinescu (1881–1965), Romania – creator...

under the rule of Hyder Ali. The Congreve rocket was a British weapon designed and developed by Sir William Congreve in 1804. This rocket was based directly...

Theatre, London Sung by Mrs. Kitty Clive at her benefit performance of William Congreve's The Way of the World (Act III). Music composed in London, 1740...

replica clocks (over 10,000 built in limited editions): from 1972 to 1980 ten types of replica clocks (including the Benjamin Franklin Clock, Congreve Rolling...

developed by Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842). 1804: The Congreve rocket, a weapon, invented by Sir William Congreve (1772–1828). 1830s: The safety fuse invented...

Popje and a drawing room ceiling by Simon Gilligan. A clock tower in the forecourt houses a water clock designed and constructed by Reginald Brabazon, 13th...

as they knew that water supply would be problematic. Colonel William Congreve, a military engineer who was later knighted, proposed the use of hydropneumatic...

attic, a man was turning a crank to power the device. In 1827, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet devised a machine running on capillary action that would disobey...

provide warning of British incursions. English military engineer William Congreve observed that at the Battle of Vervik of 1793 French commanders directed...

The first iteration of British Island Airways had its head office at Congreve House in Redhill. Population, type of home ownership and population density...

same year, the opera Semele by John Eccles —with a libretto by William Congreve— was not even premiered. Just as in Germany works with recitative in German...

winds and tides in Chinese rivers, and were armed with heavy guns and Congreve rockets. Several of the larger British warships in China (notably the third-rates...

Traditionally they have a distinct hint of lemon. The playwright William Congreve mentioned Shrewsbury cakes in his play The Way of the World in 1700 as...

writer and friend to Lord Cobham who visited in the 1720s was William Congreve; in 1730 James Thomson wrote the poem The Seasons after visiting the gardens;...

Hanson's map of 1778, the site is now bounded by Great Charles Street, Congreve Street, Paradise Street and Easy Row with Edmund Street running through...

Forster lordships and The Congreve Arms throughout the Congreves' ownership.: 3 : 48  The building has a large black and gold clock set into the gable, and...

Flesh by Samuel Butler The Way of the World and Other Plays by William Congreve The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope The Wayward Bus by John Steinbeck...

Banmin chohoki 1693 in literature – The Old Bachelor and The Double Dealer (Congreve), The Carnal Prayer Mat (Li Yu), Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Locke)...