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DescriptionFusee With Cord.png
English: Drawing of a fusee, a device used in early mechanical clocks and watches to even out the force of the mainspring as it unwound. The fusee is the cone shaped pulley on the right, attached to the mainspring barrel on the left.
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{{Information |Description=Drawing of fusee using cord. |Source=Downloaded from [http://books.google.com/books?id=zbs3AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA298 Thomas Minchin Goodeve (1897), ''The Elements of Mechanism'', Longmans, Green & Co., New York] on Google Books |Dat