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wikibot, what is clockwork?
Comment by autowikibot at 12/01/2014 at 00:53 UTC
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1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/clockwork
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**Clockwork** refers to the inner workings of either a mechanical clock (where it is also called a movement) or another device that operates in a similar fashion (such as a dial indicator). Specifically, the term refers to mechanisms utilizing a complex series of gears. One of the earliest known examples of a clockwork mechanism is the Antikythera mechanism, a first-century BC geared astrolabe device for calculating star positions, recovered from a Greek shipwreck.
A **clockwork motor** is a clockwork device mechanically powered by a mainspring, a spiral torsion spring of metal ribbon. Energy is stored in the mainspring manually by winding it up, turning a key attached to a ratchet which twists the mainspring tighter. Then the force of the mainspring turns the clockwork's gears, until the stored energy is used up. The adjective wind-up refers to mainspring-powered clockwork devices, which include clocks and watches, kitchen timers, music boxes, and wind-up toys.
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^(**Picture**)[2] ^- **^Clockwork ^of ^mechanical ^Prim ^wrist ^watch**
2: http://i.imgur.com/hdaEgiQ.jpg
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3: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prim_clockwork.jpg
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