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Author : Usher and Cole
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (876 download)
Download or read book A Watchmaking Centenary written by Usher and Cole and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book A Watchmaking Centenary; Usher & Cole, 1891-1961 written by and published by . This book was released on 196? with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Francis Cole
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (376 download)
Download or read book A Watchmaking Centenary written by John Francis Cole and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000571904
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 written by Alun C. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Total Pages : 1478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Keystone written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James W. Gibbs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Centennial of Watchmaking in Lancaster, Pa written by James W. Gibbs and published by . This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1052 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Jewelers' Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857732846
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book All in Good Time written by George Daniels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.
Author : British Horological Institute
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Centenary Year Exhibition of Antique Clocks, Watches, Chronometers, Clockmakers' and Watchmakers' Tools, Horological Books, Etc. ... written by British Horological Institute and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019151117X
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Marine Chronometers at Greenwich written by Jonathan Betts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Chronometers at Greenwich is the fifth, and largest, of the distinguished series of catalogues of instruments in the collections of the National Maritime Museum. Housed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich — the 'home of time' and the Prime Meridian of the world — this extraordinary collection, which includes the celebrated marine timekeepers by John Harrison (1693-1776), is generally considered to be the finest of its kind in existence. The book is however much more than just a catalogue, and includes an accessible and engaging history of the chronometer, revealing why these instruments were important in our scientific and cultural history, and explaining, in simple terms, how they worked and were used. A comprehensive Glossary and Bibliography are included to ensure any technicalities are explained and that the reader has suggestions for useful 'further reading'. Over 480 photographs and illustrations, including many fine macro-photographs and line drawings, illustrate the 'jewel-like' beauty of the chronometer's construction and explain the function and subtleties of its mechanism. A chapter on 'How the Chronometer was Made', describes the fine sub-division of labour used to create these special machines, from bare metal, right up to delivery on board ship, and brief biographies of the makers tell the human story behind this important nineteenth-century industry. Another chapter, 'The Evolution of the Chronometer', aimed at collectors, historians and curators, provides clearly structured information on assessing and dating the chronometer, something many find difficult. And, for the dedicated specialist, there is extensive tabulated data on the technical structure of this important collection, a unique resource for future research.
Author : Henry G. Abbott
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Watch Factories of America, Past and Present written by Henry G. Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198863918
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.
Author : Stephanie Zarach
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349089842
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Debrett's Bibliography of Business History written by Stephanie Zarach and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jewelers' Circular/keystone written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Yorker written by and published by . This book was released on 1948-09 with total page 2264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Central Committee on Public Relations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Editorials on the Centenary Exhibition and Pageant of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company written by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Central Committee on Public Relations and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009032836
Total Pages : 993 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses: The 1922 Text with Essays and Notes written by James Joyce and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 993 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Joyce's Ulysses is considered one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. This new edition - published to celebrate the book's first publication - helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Copiously equipped with maps, photographs, and explanatory footnotes, it provides a vivid and illuminating context for the experiences of Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus, and Molly Bloom, as well as Joyce's many other Dublin characters, on June 16, 1904. Featuring a facsimile of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, this version also includes Joyce's own errata as well as references to amendments made in later editions. Each of the eighteen chapters of Ulysses is introduced by a leading Joyce scholar. These richly informative pieces discuss the novel's plot and allusions, while also explaining crucial questions that have puzzled and tantalized readers over the last hundred years.
