Author: Arthur L. HaggarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch makers
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Supplement to Suffolk Clocks & Clockmakers
Author: Arthur L. HaggarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch makers
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Suffolk Clocks & Clockmakers
Author: Arthur L. HaggarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Victorian Clocks
Author: Richard GoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Illustrated throughout, this is a comprehensive and detailed study of the many types of Victorian clock, ideal for the collector, student or anyone with an interest in clocks.
Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers, 1352-1880
Author: Chris PickfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The dictionary is preceded by an introduction on timekeeping and the history of clock- and watchmaking in Bedfordshire. Extracts are included from a selection of documents to illustrate the sources used in compiling the dictionary. They range over advertisements, Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions' records, bills and customers' financial accounts, churchwardens' accounts, clubs, insurance records and settlement examinations. The biographical dictionary provides family details, apprenticeships, places of work and examples of the person's work, amongst much other information. Here will be found information about Thomas Tompion from Northill 'widely regarded as the greatest English clockmaker'. Appendices list the places of work in Bedfordshire and neighbouring counties of clock- and watchmakers (with a map) and of apprentices to the trade 1631-1881.
Shaping the Day
Author: Paul GlenniePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191608521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.
Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society
Author: European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Clare VincentPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588395790
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
American Clocks & Clockmakers ... Enlarged Edition. (Supplement.).
Author: Carl William DREPPERDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The British Clock Manufacturer. Special Supplement to the "Watch & Clock Maker" and the "Goldsmith Journal". February, 1933
Author: P.P. - London. - Watch and Clock MakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Supplement to Illustrated Catalogue of Clocks Manufactured by the New Haven Clock Company ...
Author: New Haven Clock CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description