- Also known as
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Thomas Tompion
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primary name: Tompion, Thomas
- Details
- individual; clockmaker/watchmaker; scientific instrument maker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1639-1713
- Other dates
- 1671-1713 (brother of Clockmakers Company 1671, working 1671-1713)
- Address
- at the Three Crowns, Fleet Street, London
- Biography
- Clockmaker to the King. Free Brother in Clockmakers Company 1671, Master 1703. Buried in Westminster Abbey. He made some of the first watches with balance-springs. In partnership with his Edward Banger (q.v.) c. 1700/01 to 1708 as Thomas Tompion & Edward Banger (q.v.). Letter in partnership with George Graham (q.v.) Photograph of trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,39.102) advertises "A Table of the Equation of Days, shewing [sic] how much a good Pendulum Watch ought to be faster or slower than a true Sun-Dial, every Day in the Year...Printed for Thomas Tompion, Clockmaker..."
- Bibliography
- ODNB
Thompson, Watches, London 2008
Thompson, Clocks, London 2004
Evans, Jeremy, Thomas Tompion at the Dial and Three Crowns, Tilehurst 2006
Loomes, B. (2006). "Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World", N.A.G. Press, London
Britten, F.J. (1986). "Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers - A History of Styles in Clocks and Watches and their Mechanisms", Bloomsbury Books, London
