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Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Thomas Tompion

English clockmaker

Simon Willard

American clockmaker

Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe

British horologist

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Seth Thomas

American clockmaker

Edward John Dent

British clockmaker

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John Harrison

British horologist

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Chauncey Jerome

American inventor

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Eli Terry

American craftsman

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