Fromanteel, Ahasuerus, pendulum introduced into England by, 37
The family of, great clockmakers, 37
Furniture, influence of, on clock case, 141
Georgian clocks (1720-1830), 131
German school of marquetry, 72
Gibbons, Grinling, 121
Glasgow, example at Corporation Art Gallery illustrated, 259
Glass windows, when first used in coaches, 161
Workers in London, seventeenth-century, 69
Goldsmith, Oliver, _Deserted Village_ quoted, 127
Gordon, Patrick (Edinburgh), clock by, 261
Thomas (Edinburgh), 1668-1743, 261
Graham, George (1673-1751), 212
His evidence as to Robert Hooke's invention, 36
Grandfather clock, the, its Dutch origin, 74
Its long survival, 135
Its popularity, 135
Grant, John, 37
Inn clock by, illustrated, 125
Graydon, George (Dublin), clock by (1796), 277
Greek measurement of time, 28, 29
Halifax and district, list of clockmakers, 217
"Halifax" grandfather clocks, 217
Hampton Court, Dutch character of, 91
Protestant style of decoration at, 170
The work of Daniel Marot at, 91
The work of Sir Christopher Wren at, 91
Hands, the, evolution of, 174
Hour hand, at first employed, 30, 157
Minute hand first added, 30, 158
Harris, Richard, clock by, at St. Paul's, Covent Garden, 35
Harrison, John, 37
His chronometer, 212
Hill, Thomas, clock by (1760), 197
Hogarth, William, the possibility of engraved clock-dials by, 161
Home Counties, the, list of clockmakers, 236
Hood, changing forms of the, 155
Hooke, Dr. Robert, his claim for invention of balance-spring for
watches, 36
His inventions, 212
Watch by, presented to Charles II, 36
Hour, the, its division into minutes, 30, 158
Hours, division of day into, 30
Huguenot refugees settle in England, 68, 120
Huygens, Christopher, Dutch astronomer, his work, 33
His quarrel with Dr. Hooke, 36
Huygens, Dutch cabinet-maker, his imitations of Japanese lacquered
panels, 111
Inlaid furniture, 70, 71
Inn clock, the, 124
Innovations of form in clock-cases, 141
Irish clockmakers, list of, 271, 272
Italian school of marquetry, 71
James I appoints Ramsay as "Clockmaker Extraordinary," 256
Japanese lacquer, specimens of, 106
Johnson, Thomas, clock by (1730), 191
Jones, Henry, Charles I watch made by, 289
Charles II clock by, 212
Kent and Sussex, clockmakers of, 247
Kew Gardens Botanical Museum, Japanese lacquer at, 106
Knibb, Joseph, father and son, 37
Joseph (1670), 211
Clocks by (1690), 191, 236, 241
Copper token of (1677), 236
Knokmakers, the, of Scotland, 258
Labarte, _Arts of the Middle Ages_ quoted, 33
Lac and its properties, 105
Its introduction into England, 107
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