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  1. Compensated balance developed by Hartnup,
  2. superintendent of the Liverpool Observatory
  3. (ca. 1845). This arrangement is supposed to
  4. move the compensating weights inward more
  5. quickly with rising temperatures and outward
  6. more slowly with lowering temperatures. In
  7. addition, circular elements that could
  8. easily be turned on a lathe were regarded
  9. as a practical advantage
  10.  
  11. View from below.