Foliot may refer to: Foliot (timepiece), part of the verge escapement for early clocks A member of a fictional people in the high fantasy novel The Worm...
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Tamerton Foliot is a village and former civil parish situated in the north of Plymouth, in the Plymouth district, in the ceremonial county of Devon, England...
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Verge escapement (redirect from Verge-and-foliot escapement)
kept time by using the verge escapement to drive a foliot, a primitive type of balance wheel. The foliot was a horizontal bar with weights near its ends...
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Gilbert Foliot (c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of...
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Hugh Foliot (c. 1155 – 7 August 1234) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford. Related somehow to his predecessor at Hereford, he served as a priest and papal...
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but Foliot claimed that the present situation was not one of them. According to Foliot, Becket's habit was "to condemn first, judge second". Foliot's example...
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Jordan Foliot (c. 1249-1298) was son of Richard Foliot (-1290), Knight of Jordan Castle, and Margery de Stuteville daughter of William de Stuteville (-...
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Patrick Foliot (born 1 March 1954) is a French former ice hockey goaltender. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1988 Winter Olympics. Evans, Hilary;...
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Turret clock (section Verge and foliot clocks)
Europe. The verge and foliot timekeeping mechanism in these early mechanical clocks was very inaccurate, as the primitive foliot balance wheel did not...
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well-preserved example of the earliest type of mechanical clock, called verge and foliot clocks, and is said to be the oldest working clock in the world, although...
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Warleigh, Bickleigh (redirect from Warleigh, Tamerton Foliot)
(formerly Tamerton Foliot) in Devon, about 6 miles from Plymouth. Warleigh House, the manor house of the manor of Tamerton Foliot is situated one mile...
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performance, but the accuracy of these verge and foliot clocks were more limited by their early foliot type balance wheels, which because they lacked a...
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Ralph Foliot (died c. 1198) was a medieval English clergyman and royal justice. Foliot was a nephew of Gilbert Foliot, first Bishop of Hereford and later...
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Robert Foliot (died 1186) was a medieval Bishop of Hereford in England. He was a relative of a number of English ecclesiastics, including Gilbert Foliot, one...
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typically made of brass or iron, and used the relatively primitive verge and foliot escapement. Tokugawa Ieyasu owned a lantern clock of European manufacture...
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forth. The foliot weights could be slid in or out on the bar, to adjust the rate of the clock. The first clocks in northern Europe used foliots, while those...
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weight-driven mechanical clock controlled by the action of a verge and foliot was a synthesis of earlier ideas from European and Islamic science. Mechanical...
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St Budeaux Southway Stoke Stonehouse (One of the Three Towns) Tamerton Foliot (Village) West Hoe Weston Mill Whitleigh Woolwell Government • Type Unitary...
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near Wellow, Nottinghamshire, England. Originally owned by the Foliot family. Jordan Foliot was given license to crenellate his manor in 1264. Throsby 1796...
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Aaron S.; Nosonovsky, Michael (2020). "Friction and Dynamics of Verge and Foliot: How the Invention of the Pendulum Made Clocks Much More Accurate". Applied...
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Henry II, with John Gielgud as King Louis VII, Donald Wolfit as Gilbert Foliot, Paolo Stoppa as Pope Alexander III, Martita Hunt as Empress Matilda, Pamela...
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1170, Roger de Pont L'Évêque, Archbishop of York, was at York with Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, and Josceline de Bohon, Bishop of Salisbury, to crown...
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Plympton Plymstock Roborough St Budeaux Southway Stoke Stonehouse Tamerton Foliot West Hoe Weston Mill Whitleigh Widewell Woolwell The Barbican Dolphin Inn...
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Tamerton Foliot was a railway station, built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJR) on its line from Lydford to Devonport...
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JP (4 October 1903 – 30 June 1992) of Maristow in the parish of Tamerton Foliot, Devon, was a British peer and officer of the British Army. Lopes was the...
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William de Blois, Bishop of Worcester John of Fountains, Bishop of Ely Hugh Foliot, Bishop of Hereford Ralph Neville, Bishop of Chichester William Briwere...
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would die of sickness within three days. The response by bishop Gilbert Foliot was "Dig up the body and cut off the head with a spade, sprinkle it with...
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Tamerton Foliot and the River Plym. In the quartet, Miss Plym and Chudleigh Pomeroy are both in the Guild of Historians, and Tamarton Foliot is an "Alternative"...
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In early mechanical clocks before 1657, it was a crude balance wheel or foliot which was not a harmonic oscillator because it lacked a balance spring....
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Hugh Hastings I: those of Hastings with a label, quartered with those of Foliot. He served in the English expeditions to Brittany in 1378 and 1379. He travelled...
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