Author: Great Britain. Daylight Saving Bill CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Report and Special Report from the Select Committee on the Daylight Saving Bill
Author: Great Britain. Daylight Saving Bill CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Report and Special Report from the Select Committee on the Trade Marks Bill
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Trade Marks BillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
One Time Fits All
Author: Ian R. BartkyPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804756426
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
One Time Fits All tells the story of the development, integration, and obstacles overcome in setting an the International Date Line, establishing the worldwide system of Standard Time zones, and adopting Daylight Saving Time—including their global impacts on how the general public keeps time today.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Copyright Bill H.I. and the Copyright (artistic) Bill H.I.
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select committee on the copyright billsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
Author: David RooneyPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393867943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.
Special Report and Report with Proceedings, ...
Author: Great Britain. Sea-Fisheries Bill, Select Committee onPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Quarterly List of Parliamentary Publications
Author: Great Britain. Stationery OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description