Author: Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of London
Author: Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The Clockmakers' Library
Author: Worshipful Company of ClockmakersPublisher: London : Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
The Guildhall Miscellany
Author: The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930
Author: Alun C. DaviesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000571904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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.
Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature: 1777-1800
Author: Horological Journal
Author: Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature: Index
Author: Goldsmiths' Library of Economic LiteraturePublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
The Goldsmiths' Library contains the major colection of historical economic literature in the English-speaking world. It includes periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts and autograph letters-as well as printed books-from the fifteenth century to the present day. The Catalogue, in four volumes, constitutes an essential bibliographical tool and is the key work of reference for early economic literature. It includes all works of economic literature in the library, covering the period from 1470 to 1850. The entries are arranged chronologically under the year of publication, and from 1601 onwards this year-by-yera arrangment is supplemented by 14 subject divisions.