Thomas Tompion, FRS (1639–1713) was an English clockmaker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the "Father of English Clockmaking"...

his mentor Thomas Tompion, Graham left Cumberland in 1688 for London to work with Tompion. He later married Tompion's niece, Elizabeth Tompion. Graham was...

watches was possible only after the invention of the hairspring by Thomas Tompion, an English watchmaker, in 1675. Clock face International System of...

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20 November 1751) a partner of Thomas Tompion Frank Hope-Jones (1867-1950) Joseph Johnson; Liverpool (1795–1827) Thomas Kefford (fl. 1710–1750). Joseph...

gravitation. There is an orrery built by clock makers George Graham and Thomas Tompion dated c. 1710 in the History of Science Museum, Oxford. Graham gave...

the fictional school within the film. Brian Stimpson, headmaster of Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School, has been elected to chair the annual Headmasters'...

escapement first made by Thomas Tompion to a design by Richard Towneley in 1675 although it is often credited to Tompion's successor George Graham who...

1675 by astronomer Richard Towneley, and first used by Graham's mentor Thomas Tompion in a clock built for Sir Jonas Moore, and in the two precision regulators...

astronomical clocks were commissioned to his design from the clockmaker Thomas Tompion and installed at the Greenwich Observatory. The clocks were paid for...

aberration of light. William IV marked the site of the observations with a Thomas Tompion sundial in 1832, transferred from Hampton Court Palace to a plinth to...

Gretton 1702, Joseph Windmills 1703, Thomas Tompion 1708, Daniel Quare 1717 Nathaniel Chamberlain 1718, Thomas Windmills 1795, 1812 Harry Potter 1810...

spring is the type used in virtually all watches up to the present day. Thomas Tompion was one of the first clockmakers to recognise the potential of the balance...

– Charles Hickman, Anglican Bishop of Derry (b. 1648) November 20 – Thomas Tompion, British clockmaker (b. 1638) November 26 – John Belding, Connecticut...

visit. It was sculpted by Martin Holden and is a replica of one by Thomas Tompion, a celebrated 17th-century clockmaker, which had been sited near the...

approx. date – The first modern orrery is built by George Graham and Thomas Tompion. An earthquake strikes Gondar in Ethiopia. Daniel Defoe documents the...

Huygens Antide Janvier Jean-Antoine Lépine Thomas Mudge Nicolas Mathieu Rieussec Hubert Sarton [fr] Thomas Tompion Gérald Genta Chronometer watch Clockmaker...

Hooke, had made the first longcase clocks by 1680. Later the same year, Thomas Tompion, the most prominent British clockmaker, was making them too. Longcase...

replaced in quality watches by the cylinder escapement, invented by Thomas Tompion in 1695 and further developed by George Graham in 1715. In Britain a...

recognising him as a worthy companion to his friend George Graham and Thomas Tompion, 'The Father of English Watchmaking', who are both buried in the Abbey...

made accurate pocket watches possible. The great English clockmaker Thomas Tompion, was one of the first to use this mechanism successfully in his pocket...

son-in-law, found office furniture manufacturer Herman Miller. Model 612-436 Thomas Tompion has been made for over 25 years and is still made today. "New executive...

but the first widely used regulator was invented by Thomas Tompion around 1680. In the Tompion regulator the curb pins were mounted on a semicircular...

The village is known for its maypole and for being the birthplace of Thomas Tompion, the "Father of English Clockmaking". Ickwell is not mentioned in Domesday...

apprenticed to George Graham, a clock and watch maker who had trained under Thomas Tompion. Graham’s business was situated in Water Lane, Fleet Street. When Mudge...

Clement (1638–1704), English watchmaker, London, Clement escapement. Thomas Tompion (1639–1713), (C. C.), English clockmaker, London, Master of the Worshipful...

The first clocks using a form of deadbeat escapement, constructed by Thomas Tompion to a design by Richard Towneley, are installed at the Royal Greenwich...

Thomas Tompion, preceding him as Master of the Company in 1702, as well as alongside Charles Gretton (Master of the Company in 1700). His son Thomas completed...

Street Sir Joseph John "J.J." Thomson William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin Thomas Tompion The Unknown Warrior (entombed in 1920) Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield...

Jean Pelletier, "India back" walnut chairs by Thomas Roberts and clocks and a barometer by Thomas Tompion. Several state beds are still in their original...