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• Balance wheel
  ...ism with a crude balance wheel without [[springs]]. The invention of the [[hairspring]] by [[Robert Hooke]] and [[Christiaan Huygens]] in the 17th century signif ...ich gives the balance wheel the impulses to keep it oscillating, and the [[hairspring]], which provides the restoring force to keep the balance wheel's oscillati
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• Encyclopedia of foods
  ...rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat; a weight that balances another weight;
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