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Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Thomas Tompion

English clockmaker

Simon Willard

American clockmaker

Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe

British horologist

Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.

Seth Thomas

American clockmaker

Edward John Dent

British clockmaker

John Harrison, detail of an oil painting by Thomas King; in the Science Museum, London

John Harrison

British horologist

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Chauncey Jerome

American inventor

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Eli Terry

American craftsman

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Daniel Quare

English clockmaker and inventor

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