So the former CEO of Standard Fusee Corp . served on the school's Board of Trustees for 51 years and gave it millions of dollars.
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The watches which were made in Paris from c . 1675 and following the Huygens plan are notable for lacking a fusee for equalizing the mainspring torque.
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Most fusee clocks include a'winding stop'mechanism to prevent the mainspring and fusee from being wound up too far, possibly breaking the chain.
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Most fusee clocks include a'winding stop'mechanism to prevent the mainspring and fusee from being wound up too far, possibly breaking the chain.
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In 1760, Jean-Antoine L�pine dispensed with the fusee, inventing a " going barrel " to power the watch gear train directly.
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Two devices to do this had appeared in the first clock-watches : the " stackfreed " and the " fusee ".
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As the spring unwinds and its torque decreases, the chain winds back onto the mainspring barrel and pulls on an increasingly larger diameter portion of the fusee.
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Since they can be used only once, fusees nowadays are usually intended for emergency use ( as opposed to the lanterns typically used during normal operating conditions ).
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England continued to make the bulkier full plate fusee watches until about 1900 They were inexpensive models sold to the lower classes and were derisively called " turnips ".
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A "'fusee "'is a pyrotechnic device similar to an automotive flare that is used as a signaling device on North American railroad lines.
