Author: Thomas TompionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Directions for Setting and Keeping a Pocket-watch, with a Spring to the Balance, Commonly Call'd, a Pendulum-watch
Author: Thomas TompionDirections for Setting and Keeping a Pocket-watch,
Author: Thomas TompionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Directions for Setting and Keeping a Pocket Pendulum Watch
Author: Daniel LeCountPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 1
Book Description
Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830
Author: Marcus TomalinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000042081
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device – mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells – and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.
A Catalogue of Proclamations, Broadsides, Ballads and Poems Presented to the Chetham Library, Manchester by James O. Halliwell. [With Facsimiles.]
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Author: James Orchard Halliwell-PhillippsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Broadsides
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Ordnance Maintenance Wrist Watches, Pocket Watches, Stop Watches and Clocks
Author: AnonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1528766202
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This vintage book contains a handbook of watch repair and maintenance for ordnance maintenance personnel published by the American War Department in 1945. With useful diagrams and full instructions, this volume will be of considerable utility to those with an interest in vintage military watches. Contents include: "General", "Introduction", "Functional Description", "Inspection", "General Maintenance", "Cleaning and Lubricating", "Trouble Shooting, Adjusting, and Repair", "Pocket and Wrist Watches", "Characteristics of Pocket and Wrist Watches", "Hamilton Pocket Watch, 16 Size, 21-Jewel, Railroad Grade, Model 922B", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. First published in 1945.
Ordnance Maintenance: Wrist Watches, Pocket Watches, Stop Watches, And Clocks
Author: The Guildhall Miscellany
Author: Guildhall Miscellany
Author: Practical Watch Repairing
Author: Donald De CarlePublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 0719831067
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Here is a unique book. It describes the theories and processes of repairing and adjusting the modern watch in precise and meticulous detail: a thing which has never been done so completely before in the many books on the same subject. As a text book it is a revelation. Taking nothing for granted, except the ability to read and comprehend a simple description of mechanical processes, de Carle takes his reader through every stage and every operation of watch repairing ...and to deal with them thoroughly is quite a programme - it takes 300 pages containing 24 chapters, two appendices and 553 illustrations. The fine draughtsmanship and accurate technical detail of the illustrations set a new standard. Practical Watch Repairing can justifiably claim to be the best illustrated book on practical horology yet issued, and one of the best of its kind on any subject. The publication of the book marks the beginning of a new epoch in the study of the mechanics of horology.