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  2. American system of watch manufacturing - Wikipedia

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    Surviving examples of Pitkin watches showed that the parts were, in fact, interchangeable. Waltham Watch Company Case back showing hinges, Waltham model 57 American made. Case back inside photo with hallmark of the Waltham watch company; a model 57. In 1850 Aaron Dennison partnered with Edward Howard, a reputable clockmaker.

  3. Mechanical watch - Wikipedia

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    A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio watches, which are quartz watches synchronized to an atomic clock via radio waves. A mechanical watch is driven by a mainspring which ...

  4. Wheel train - Wikipedia

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    Wheel train. In horology, a wheel train (or just train) is the gear train of a mechanical watch or clock. [1] Although the term is used for other types of gear trains, the long history of mechanical timepieces has created a traditional terminology for their gear trains which is not used in other applications of gears .

  5. Watch - Wikipedia

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    A hybrid smartwatch is a fusion between a regular mechanical watch and a smartwatch. Parts. The movement and case are the basic parts of a watch. A watch band or bracelet is added to form a wristwatch; alternatively, a watch chain is added to form a pocket watch. The case is the outer covering of the watch.

  6. Time and motion study - Wikipedia

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    A health care time and motion study is used to research and track the efficiency and quality of health care workers. In the case of nurses, numerous programs have been initiated to increase the percent of a shift nurses spend providing direct care to patients. Prior to interventions nurses were found to spend ~20% of their time doing direct care.

  7. Smartwatch - Wikipedia

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    An Apple Watch browsing French Wikipedia. A smartwatch is a portable wearable computer device in the form of a wristwatch. Most modern smartwatches are operated via a touchscreen, and are often reliant on mobile apps that run on a connected device such as a smartphone to provide some core functions.

  8. Schematic - Wikipedia

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    A semi-schematic diagram combines some of the abstraction of a purely schematic diagram with other elements displayed as realistically as possible, for various reasons. It is a compromise between a purely abstract diagram (e.g. the schematic of the Washington Metro) and an exclusively realistic representation (e.g. the corresponding aerial view of Washington).

  9. Cathode-ray tube - Wikipedia

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    Some industries still use CRTs because it is either too much effort, downtime, and/or cost to replace them, or there is no substitute available; a notable example is the airline industry. Planes such as the Boeing 747-400 and the Airbus A320 used CRT instruments in their glass cockpits instead of mechanical instruments. [93]