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Updated: May 28, 2025
After the boats had disappeared, the pirates were retiring from the fort, when Tompion's gallant attack on the mistico called them back, and it was at this time that a spark from the lantern of a man, sent for a further supply of powder, fell among the scattered grains, and produced the conflagration I have before spoken of.
In a few minutes more away sped a second of the worthy Tompion's messengers; it, too, passed through the foresail, close to the yard, but apparently without doing any further damage.
Nor, probably, did Stuart dream when he woke up to-day that his morning ride in a Fifth Avenue bus would land him in jail. So you must not despair of seeing London and some of Thomas Tompion's clocks. Moreover, should you go there, I hope you will hunt up in Westminster Abbey the grave of this famous man." "Was he buried at Westminster?
On reaching it I found there was someone already there. "Hard a-weather; over with it, man; hard over!" I yelled as I got hold of the spokes and vainly strove to move the helm. "It is hard a-weather, sir," shrieked Tompion's voice in reply; "but we're done for, sir; if she won't pay off she's bound to capsize."
He had always been an ingenious fellow interested in evolving mathematical instruments of all sorts." "Were his clocks as good as Tompion's?" queried Christopher. "As to that, the two were pretty well matched," was the answer. "Graham, however, concentrated most of his skill on watches while Tompion put the major part of his talent into long-case clocks which were unrivaled.
These watches all had two balances and balance springs fashioned after the scheme Hooke had worked out. They also, like most of Tompion's timekeepers, had an hour and a minute hand. And yet all this which I have told you does not give you half an idea of what Tompion really was." McPhearson paused thoughtfully. "Thomas Tompion stood for something more than any of these things.
We contented ourselves with what silver and little gold they had about them, which to about three or four pounds, and their gold watches, one of which, as well I remember, was of Tompion's make, and which I afterwards pawned for five guineas to a fellow that the week after broke, and ran away with it, so that I had not the opportunity of restoring it again to the proper owner, for which I heartily beg his pardon.
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