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Edward John Dent

1790 - 1853

Edward John Dent

English clockmaker and chronometer maker.

Key dates

1829

Received an award for a chronometer.

1850

Formulation of the secondary error (at medium temperatures) discovered by Ferdinand Berthoud in 1771. It is called the Dent anomaly or secondary error. Construction of a clock for the Royal Exchange.

Construction of Big Ben continued by his son-in-law, Frederick who used the gravity escapement invented by Edmund Beckett Denison.