This principle had been utilized by watchmakers for a quite different purpose-the temperature compensation of the watch pendulum-but its possibilities as a thermometer had been known long before the mid-19th century.
"The Introduction of Self-Registering Meteorological Instruments"
Robert P. Multhauf
The cleaner end leads into Wilmington Square, which consists of decently depressing houses, occupied in the main, as the lower windows and front-doors indicate, by watchmakers, working jewellers, and craftsmen of allied pursuits.
"The Nether World"
George Gissing
Schoolmistress Johnsen talked about what she had learned, watchmakers and the Alps and Calvin-- "Yes, those are the only three things in a thousand years," said the Associate Master, his face quite altered and pale with suppressed rage.
"Look Back on Happiness"
Knut Hamsun