Josiah Emery (probably November 11, 1725 - between July 2 and July 14, 1794) was a watch and clock maker who improved Thomas Mudge's lever escapement in...
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Cincinnati, Ohio on 4 January 1904. She was the youngest daughter of John Josiah Emery (1835–1908), a real-estate millionaire, and his wife, the former Lela...
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John Josiah Emery Jr. (January 28, 1898 — September 24, 1976) was an American real estate developer including of the Carew Tower (1931) in Cincinnati,...
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American politician Josiah Dwight (1671–1748), English minister Josiah Griffin Ely (1829–1886), American physician Josiah Emery (1731/1732–1794), English...
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Pavlovich of Russia and his morganatic wife, Cincinnati heiress Audrey Emery[citation needed]. He was a great-grandson of Tsar Alexander II of Russia...
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The lever escapement, invented by Thomas Mudge in 1754 and improved by Josiah Emery in 1785, gradually came into use from about 1800 onwards, chiefly in...
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reward, was tempted back by the failure of Josiah Emery to win it. Earnshaw had a low opinion of Emery's chronometers and claimed that an already existing...
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1755) was put into limited production by a handful of makers including Josiah Emery (a Swiss based in London) and Abraham-Louis Breguet. With this, a domestic...
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other makers also made precision watches with the detached escapement: Josiah Emery and John Brockbank. Both were friends of Arnold, and both employed the...
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Olyphant Jr. (1895–1973) in 1927. After his death in 1973, she married John Josiah Emery Jr. (1898–1976). Alice Frances Hammond (1905–1978), who married George...
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