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Most of his surviving clocks are longcase clocks being of universally high quality incorporating such features as long going, frequent use of deadbeat escarpments, six spoke wheels, high count trains, repeating, enclosed movements, and a general high standard of workmanship at least equal to that of London makers of the time.
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Most paleontologists regard birds as the only surviving dinosaurs ( see Origin of birds ).
Most surviving pre-modern manuscripts use the codex format ( as in a modern book ), which had replaced the scroll by Late Antiquity.
Most surviving PDP-8s are from this era.
Most of the surviving crew of 1, 150 were interned in Uruguay and Argentina and many remained after the war.
Most valuable of all from a text-critical perspective is the Vulgate text of the Apocalypse, a book where there is no clear majority text in the surviving Greek witnesses.
Most inferences about him are extracted from his only surviving work De Architectura.
Most often it was transcribed phonetically using Chinese characters, as is the case with the only surviving copies of The Secret History of the Mongols.
Most of the Thracians were eventually Hellenized or Romanized, with the last remnants surviving in remote areas until the 5th century.
Most surviving CCP members were relocated to the Communist base in Jiangxi.
Most surviving BP stations are kept so BP can continue holding the trademarks for Amoco and Standard.
Most fish that have evolved in this harsh environment are not capable of surviving in laboratory conditions, and attempts to keep them in captivity have led to their deaths.
Most surviving Archean rocks are metamorphic or igneous.
Most trading wherries were clinker-built, but Albion, surviving today, was the sole example to be carvel-built.
Most of the surviving houses are 18th-century or earlier in construction.
Most functional and sought-after of these machines are cast-iron, pedal-operated devices manufactured beginning in the 1880s by bindery equipment makers like F. P Rosback Co. and Latham Machinery Co. Rosback also produced table-top perforators, but surviving models are exceedingly rare.
Most of the surviving Beaubear's Island refugees soon left the Miramichi, seeking refuge in Quebec.
Most surviving tiaras are on display in the Vatican, though some were sold off or donated to Catholic bodies.
Most of the surviving triple tiaras have the shape of a circular beehive, with its central core made of silver.
Most surviving Byzantine manuscripts begin with the third Hymn.
Most of the ostracoderms, such as thelodonts, osteostracans, and galeaspids, were more closely related to the gnathostomes than to the surviving agnathans, known as cyclostomes.
Most surviving armored cruisers from this conflict were scrapped under the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which imposed limits on warships and defined a cruiser as a ship of 10, 000 tons or less carrying guns of 8-inch caliber or less — rather smaller than many of the large armored cruisers.
Most notably, the relationship of the picine genera has been largely clarified, and it was determined that the Antillean Piculet is a surviving offshoot of proto-woodpeckers.
Most of the surviving Athenian soldiers were sent to work as slave laborers in the Sicilian quarries, which were death traps.
Most of the surviving specimens from this period are made entirely of iron, inlaid with designs of silver or other materials, and covered with lacquer.
Most species hibernate for at least half the year, surviving on fat that they build up in the weeks prior to going to sleep.
Most and clocks
Most of the mechanical clocks are now sold as antiquities as many factories were shut down after First World War and after Second World War.
Most of today's quartz clocks and watches use 32, 768 Hz quartz tuning forks for timekeeping.
Most are used for consumer devices such as wristwatches, clocks, radios, computers, and cellphones.
Most municipalities-despite originally supporting time zone unification at their annual meetings-responded to the government initiative with overt resistance, leading to an amazing popular stand-off where Hamlets ran clocks at their preferred time and schools and airports frequently operated on another.
Most modern clocks have the numbers 1 through 12 printed at equally spaced intervals around the periphery of the face with the 12 at the top, indicating the hour, and on many models, sixty dots or lines evenly spaced in a ring around the outside of the dial, indicating minutes and seconds.
Most binary clocks are digital, although analog varieties exist.
Most longcase clocks are striking clocks, which means they sound the time on each hour or fraction of an hour.
Most longcase clocks are cable-driven, meaning that the weights are suspended by cables.
Most of the gross inaccuracy of verge and foliot clocks was not due to the escapement itself, but to the foliot oscillator.
Most clocks were rebuilt with their foliots replaced by pendula, to the extent that it is difficult to find original verge and foliot clocks intact today.
Most fusee clocks include a ' winding stop ' mechanism to prevent the mainspring and fusee from being wound up too far, possibly breaking the chain.
Most modern projection clocks use a red LED-based projector, and also an ordinary LED or LCD display to enable time reading when ambient light is too bright for the projection to be seen.
Most digital clocks display the hour of the day in 24 hour format ; in the United States and a few other countries, a more commonly used hour sequence option is 12 hour format ( with some indication of AM or PM ).
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Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.
Most assuredly ideas are invaluable.
Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.
Most women, in this age of freezers, shop for the entire week on week-ends, when prices are lower.
Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.
Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.
Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.
Most floor battens are glued and screwed to the flooring.
Most of the data used are from Groth's Chemische Krystallographie.
Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.
Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.
The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.
1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.
Most Jewish mothers are determined to exercise vigilance over the social and sexual lives of their daughters by keeping them home.
Most members of the U.S. Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can.
Most library budgets are hopelessly inadequate.
Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.
Most of the female faces are new, or at least not too familiar.
Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.
Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.
Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.
Most salamanders are under long.
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