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A clockmaker used wooden mechanisms
John Harrison brought a joiner’s skills to clockmaking. His early clocks used wooden movements made with materials such as oak and lignum vitae. Precision timekeeping was not solely a matter of shaping metal parts. Woodworking belonged inside the mechanism as well as around the case.
The clock’s working parts could be wooden too.
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