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Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Horological Journal
Author: The Horological Journal
Author: The Science of Clocks and Watches
Author: Arthur Lionel RawlingsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Upton Hall, Upton, Newark, Notts. NG23 5TE.
The Horological Journal
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368837079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
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.
Horological Hints and Helps
Author: Frederick William BrittenPublisher: Baron Pub.
ISBN: 9780902028647
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The complexities of mechanical watches and clocks are explained with over 150 drawings to clarify the text. The author gives invaluable practical advice on the difficulties that are often encountered when attempting repairs on old timepieces.
Horological Journal
Author: Electrical Timekeeping
Author: F. Hope-JonesPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447498917
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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.
Marking Modern Times
Author: Alexis McCrossenPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601486X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.