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  • Now, Coster-Mullen, has dedicated himself to understanding the mechanical watchworks of Little Boy.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Physicists wanted to understand how the universe worked at the atomic level, and there happened to be some very serious consequences to unlocking the secrets of the grand watchworks.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • The case is opened by dropping the under jaw, which turns upon a hinge, while the watchworks occupy the place of the brain.

    Skull-Watch Of Mary Queen Of Scots | Impact Lab 2007

  • I can stare at watchworks forever; my grandfather was a watchmaker and I was endlessly fascinated by the thousands of movements he had lying around the place.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • At the American watchworks, Dumaine did the same thing again, Landes writes.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • Albert Arena, who directs the museum, notes that the Waltham watchworks is now occupied by diversified industries that “keep coming and going.”

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • Here was a world stripped to its essentials and laid open for everyone to examine: the watchworks were exposed.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • Here was a world stripped to its essentials and laid open for everyone to examine: the watchworks were exposed.

    The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

  • 'Deionizer' than the little model I have shown you, and run it with a hundred horse-power motor, instead of with a small spring and watchworks.

    L.P.M. : the end of the Great War

  • All the boys at the watchworks, all the fellows in the neighborhood -- gone.

    One Basket Edna Ferber 1926

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