Watchmaker
Thomas Mudge
London watchmaker credited with inventing the detached lever escapement around 1755.
Apprenticed to George Graham, Mudge applied the detached lever in a watch later owned by Queen Charlotte. The lever became dominant only in the nineteenth century.
- Country
- England
- City
- London
- Founded / active
- Active c. 1740s–1794
- Status
- Historical individual
- Key people
- Thomas Mudge
Innovations
- Detached lever escapement