FRAS was an eminent clockmaker and watchmaker. John Arnold was apprenticed to his father, also a clockmaker, in Bodmin. He received little formal schooling and eventually apprenticed himself to a clockmaker. Bain did not excel in school and was apprenticed to a clockmaker in Wick. Martina flirts with Rudolf Pollach, an apprentice clockmaker staying with Robert and Pauline. The original turret clock was built in 1761 by an Aberdeen clockmaker named Hugh Gordon. William Harrison was a later Quaker clockmaker at Charlbury. The gravity remontoire was invented by Swiss clockmaker Jost Burgi around 1595. Mr Clamp the greengrocer, Mr Munnings the printer, and Mr Platt the clockmaker. Alexander Bain, Scottish clockmaker, patented the electric clock in 1840. The clocks were manufactured in Moe by local clockmaker Alan Cox. Benjamin Huntsman was a clockmaker in search of a better steel for clock springs. In 1857, Matthias Hohner, a clockmaker from Trossingen, started producing harmonicas. This new carillon was installed in 1776 by the German clockmaker Johann Erdmann Rudiger. Thomas tells O'Brien that his father was a clockmaker.