Anchor escapement

Japanese: アンクル脱進機 - あんくるだっしんき
Anchor escapement

…Some of his ideas and inventions have been passed down to modern clocks. Representative examples are the pendulum, the balance and hairspring, and the anchor escapement. Galileo discovered the isochronism of the pendulum around 1583, but it was Huygens who actually completed a highly accurate pendulum clock in 1659. …

*Some of the terminology used to describe the "anchor escapement" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…その中のいくつかの考案,発明は現代の時計にまで引き継がれている。その代表的なものは,振子,てんぷとひげぜんまい,アンクル脱進機である。ガリレイが振子の等時性を発見したのは1583年ころであるが,実際に精度のよい振子時計を完成したのはホイヘンスであり,1659年のことであった。…

※「アンクル脱進機」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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