Everything about George Graham Clockmaker totally explained
George Graham (
1674?-
1751) was an English
clockmaker and
inventor and a member of the
Royal Society.
He was partner to the influential English clockmaker
Thomas Tompion during the last few years of Tompion's life. Graham is credited with inventing several design improvements to the
pendulum clock, inventing the mercury
pendulum and also the
orrery. However his greatest innovation was the invention of the Graham or dead beat
escapement around 1715. 1722 he was appointed the master of the Clockmakers Company .
He was buried in the same tomb as his friend and mentor
Tompion in
Westminster Abbey.
Between 1730 and 1738, Graham had as an apprentice
Thomas Mudge who went on to be an eminent watchmaker in his own right, and invented the
lever escapement, an important development for pocket watches.
Examples of his work
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