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...

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...

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...

Gilbert Foliot (c. 1110 – 18 February 1187) was a medieval English monk and prelate, successively Abbot of Gloucester, Bishop of Hereford and Bishop of...

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...

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...

Jordan Foliot (c. 1249-1298) was son of Richard Foliot (-1290), Knight of Jordan Castle, and Margery de Stuteville daughter of William de Stuteville (-...

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;...

Europe. The verge and foliot timekeeping mechanism in these early mechanical clocks was very inaccurate, as the primitive foliot balance wheel did not...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

typically made of brass or iron, and used the relatively primitive verge and foliot escapement. Tokugawa Ieyasu owned a lantern clock of European manufacture...

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...

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...

St Budeaux Southway Stoke Stonehouse (One of the Three Towns) Tamerton Foliot (Village) West Hoe Weston Mill Whitleigh Woolwell Government  • Type Unitary...

near Wellow, Nottinghamshire, England. Originally owned by the Foliot family. Jordan Foliot was given license to crenellate his manor in 1264. Throsby 1796...

Aaron S.; Nosonovsky, Michael (2020). "Friction and Dynamics of Verge and Foliot: How the Invention of the Pendulum Made Clocks Much More Accurate". Applied...

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...

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...

Plympton Plymstock Roborough St Budeaux Southway Stoke Stonehouse Tamerton Foliot West Hoe Weston Mill Whitleigh Widewell Woolwell The Barbican Dolphin Inn...

Tamerton Foliot was a railway station, built by the Plymouth, Devonport and South Western Junction Railway (PDSWJR) on its line from Lydford to Devonport...

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...

William de Blois, Bishop of Worcester John of Fountains, Bishop of Ely Hugh Foliot, Bishop of Hereford Ralph Neville, Bishop of Chichester William Briwere...

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...

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"...

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....

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...