watchmaker

He was early exposed to the mechanical world, and in his youth often helped his father, David Brown, master clock and watchmaker, as he plied his trade.

In 1846 Matthew B. Goodwin, jeweler and watchmaker, became the town's first telegrapher in a dwelling he built for himself and his business `` two doors north of the Equinox House '' or `` one door north of the Bank, Manchester, Vermont ''.

* John Arnold ( 1736-1799 ), watchmaker, of London

William Paley famously argued, in his 1802 watchmaker analogy, that complexity in nature implies a God for the same reason that the existence of a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker.

Rousseau's father, Isaac Rousseau, was a watchmaker who, notwithstanding his artisan status, was well educated and a lover of music.

" A Genevan watchmaker ," Rousseau wrote, " is a man who can be introduced anywhere ; a Parisian watchmaker is only fit to talk about watches.

It is not often recognized that in his earlier work on the " Sea clocks " Harrison was continually assisted both financially and in many other ways by George Graham, the watchmaker and instrument maker who lent him a large sum on the basis of trust even after Harrison's first visit to Graham in 1728 to explain how his timekeeper worked.

A handicap in this process is the difficulty of seeing and manipulation at the nanoscale compared to the macroscale which makes deterministic selection of successful trials difficult ; in contrast biological evolution proceeds via action of what Richard Dawkins has called the " blind watchmaker "

For example, among the monotheists deists believe that the one God is like a watchmaker who wound up the universe and does not intervene further in the universe, and some theists believe that God continues to be active in the universe.

* Rotary Watches, a Swiss watchmaker

Stephen Balzer of New York, a former watchmaker, constructed rotary engines in the 1890s.

He developed an early version of the watchmaker analogy, which was later developed by William Paley.

William Paley's " watchmaker analogy " is one of the most famous teleological arguments

The watchmaker analogy, framing the argument with reference to a timepiece, dates back to Cicero, who used the example of a sundial or water-clock in his reasoning that the presence of order and purpose signify the existence of a designer.

William Paley presented the watchmaker analogy in his Natural Theology ( 1802 ).

" Such publications introduced concepts central to intelligent design, including irreducible complexity ( a variant of the watchmaker analogy ) and specified complexity ( closely resembling a fine-tuning argument ).

* Titan Industries, an Indian watchmaker

He is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God in his work Natural Theology, which made use of the watchmaker analogy ( also see natural theology ).

Swiss-based German watchmaker Bernhard Lederer created a limited edition of 50 Gagarin Tourbillons to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

* January 9 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watchmaker ( b. 1812 )

* March 1 – Antoni Patek, Polish watchmaker ( b. 1811 )

* Abraham-Louis Breguet ( 1747 – 1823 ), watchmaker

* Louis-François-Clement Breguet ( 1804 – 1883 ), physicist, watchmaker, electrical and telegraph work