"He often showed me the ingenious wheelwork of his Nuremberg clocks.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
The wheelwork of the great modern machine is infinitely delicate.
"The Simple Life"
Charles Wagner
It is well known that Mr Jones has with great success introduced the system of applying galvanic currents originating in the vibrations of a normal pendulum, not to drive the wheelwork of other clocks, but to regulate to exact agreement the rates of their pendulums which were, independently, nearly in agreement; each clock being driven by weight-power as before.
"Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy"
George Biddell Airy