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Author : Technical College of the Vallee de Joux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782940025497
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Horology written by Technical College of the Vallee de Joux and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony John Turner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191896224
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Anthony John Turner and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 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.
Author : Malcolm Wild
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719843618
Total Pages : 731 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Wheel & Pinion Cutting in Horology written by Malcolm Wild and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 731 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many clock repairers carry out excellent work but avoid cutting their own wheels and pinions, fearing it is too complicated and involved. This book, written by an experienced clock and tool maker, dispels those fears and gives a step-by-step guide to an extremely satisfying aspect of horology. This book is written for both the amateur and professional involved in the making and restoring of clocks, and for anyone who intends to start building up a workshop and requires a guide to the equipment and how to use it.
Author : Alexis McCrossen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022601486X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Marking Modern Times written by Alexis McCrossen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : G. H. Baillie
Publisher : N. A. G. Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719801402
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Watches written by G. H. Baillie and published by N. A. G. Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is widely acknowledged as being one of the most important and informative books ever to appear on the subject of horology. The present work is a facsimile, produced by the original printers of the original publication. For accurate factual information, Baillies' work is as fresh today as it was when first written. It is a proper history covering nearly four centuries, with emphasis on original developments.
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 : Barry B. Kaplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764363924
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Horology written by Barry B. Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated volume presents an in-depth look at horology, the scientific study of time and timekeeping. Brimming with more than 150 detailed and full-color images, illustrations, charts, and technical drawings, it's a must-have for anyone interested in the art of watchmaking and watch design. But it's also much more. If you've ever wondered how watches work, or thought about how time influences our lives, then this book is also for you. It offers a comprehensive overview of watch styles, movements, complications, and parts, as well as the basics of starting and caring for a watch collection. A multifaceted study, it discusses the philosophy and measurement of time, the possibility of time travel, and the emergent smartwatch industry. A behind-the-scenes peek into the watch industry, plus pricing and market data, rounds out the contents. Readers will leave these pages with a newfound, renewed, or enhanced love of watchmaking, as well as an increased appreciation for the value of time.
Author : Eric Bruton
Publisher : Chartwell Books
ISBN 13 : 9780785818557
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (185 download)
Download or read book History of Clocks and Watches written by Eric Bruton and published by Chartwell Books. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a lucid and authoritative catalog of man's obsession with time and timepieces. Hundreds of full-color and black-and-white illustrations compliment intricate line drawings that illuminate the inner workings of these devices.
Author : Bulova School of Watchmaking (New York)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918845214
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking Training Manual written by Bulova School of Watchmaking (New York) and published by . This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gisbert L. Brunner
Publisher : Konemann
ISBN 13 : 9783829006606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Armbanduhren written by Gisbert L. Brunner and published by Konemann. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archie B. Perkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780918845238
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Modern Watchmakers Lathe and How to Use It written by Archie B. Perkins and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085667687X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Practical Watch Escapement written by George Daniels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of George Daniels's central contributions to horology is is co-axial escapement. This book explains the action of the escapement in terms accessible to both expert and layman, and is accompanied by a series of detailed line drawings.
Author : Frederick James Britten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers written by Frederick James Britten and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Horological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614288658
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Watches: A Guide by Hodinkee written by and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a short ten-year time-span, Hodinkee has positioned itself as the preeminent and most distinguished destination for modern and vintage wristwatch enthusiasts. Exiting a career in finance, Ben Clymer decided to fuse his horological and writing passions in order to start a blog discussing everything from new products to vintage wristwatch auctions. Titling his endeavor after the Czech word hodinky, which means ‘little watch,’ Clymer sought to create a platform that was casual and accessible to all levels of enthusiasts—within a few years The New York Times dubbed him the “High Priest of Horology.”
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.
Author : Dominique Flechon
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080200801
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Mastery of Time written by Dominique Flechon and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a simple chronology, this volume explores the technical resources used to measure time—solar, hydraulic, mechanical, or electrical—just as it explains the key factors behind the major breakthroughs in the science of horology. From ancient astronomical observatories to atomic clocks, instruments for telling time have always been closely linked to the cutting-edge sciences of the day, ranging from medicine and navigation to aeronautics. Inventions in timekeeping have been crucial to the organization of human society and to activities such as farming, industry, and trade. Each new development was based on the needs and accomplishments of its day yet spurred further discoveries. Writing a history of time means viewing human genius through the prism of the steady mastery of a crucial technology. The patient, long-term conquest of accuracy has been the result of successive advances from sundial to wristwatch up to the recent exploits of the heirs to this age-old quest, namely master horologists of the twenty-first century.
