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Author: Brian Loomes Publisher: ISBN: 9780955446078 Category : Clock and watch makers Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This important new biographical reference source details all the known information about every recorded clockmaker, watchmaker and others working in the horological trades in the British Isles born before 1700. This book includes 6,230 makers, as well as their known apprentices or journeymen. Much of this information is presented for the first time and is not available elsewhere. References are given to detailed articles about particular clockmakers.
Author: Brian Loomes Publisher: ISBN: 9780955446078 Category : Clock and watch makers Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This important new biographical reference source details all the known information about every recorded clockmaker, watchmaker and others working in the horological trades in the British Isles born before 1700. This book includes 6,230 makers, as well as their known apprentices or journeymen. Much of this information is presented for the first time and is not available elsewhere. References are given to detailed articles about particular clockmakers.
Author: Harry Chase Brearley Publisher: DigiCat ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
Book Description
Harry Chase Brearly in this book gives a detailed description of the history of timekeeping from the stone age through the invention of modern clocks and watches. He described so many important parts of technologies of time-telling devices such as water clocks with the explanation of essential parts that makes up the mechanism of clocks. This book also covers the idea and philosophy of time.
Author: Abbott Payson Usher Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 9780486255934 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 482
Book Description
This revised and updated classic explores the importance of technological innovation in the cultural and economic history of the West. Topics include technology of textile manufacture from primitive times, water wheels and wind mills, clocks and watches, and invention of printing. "Without peer in its field." — American Scientist.