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Author : Richard Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007940523
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Ships, Clocks, and Stars written by Richard Dunn and published by . This book was released on with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dunn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062357174
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Ships, Clocks, and Stars written by Richard Dunn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.
Author : Richard Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007525867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Finding Longitude written by Richard Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition "Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude". 300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure from the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude (east-west position) at sea. With life-changing rewards on offer, the challenge captured the imaginations and talents of astronomers, skilled craftsmen, politicians, seamen and satirists. This beautifully illustrated book is a detailed account of these stories, and how the longitude problem was solved. Highlights of the book include: * Foreword by the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees. * Specially commissioned photographs of the National Maritime Museum's collection. * A new description of the collaborations and conflicts in a tale of technical creativity, scientific innovation and hard commercialism. From the same publisher as Dava Sobel's Longitude, Finding Longitude tells a new story of one of the great achievements of the Georgian age, and how it changed our understanding of the world.
Author : National Maritime Museum
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007525877
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Finding Longitude: How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem written by National Maritime Museum and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended for viewing on colour device. Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's “Ships, Clocks and Stars” exhibition.
Author : Andrew Kenneth Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1588344916
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Time and Navigation written by Andrew Kenneth Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.
Author : Pat Hutchins
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481410725
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Clocks and More Clocks written by Pat Hutchins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the hall clock reads twenty minutes past four, the attic clock reads twenty-three minutes past four, the kitchen clock reads twenty-five minutes past four, and the bedroom clock reads twenty-six minutes past four, what should Mr. Higgins do? He can't tell which of his clocks tells the right time. He is in for a real surprise when the Clockmaker shows him that they are all correct!
Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779433
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Longitude written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Author : Elke Niehüser
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764309434
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830 written by Elke Niehüser and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful gold and bronze pendulum clocks not only tell time but also depict sculptures of Greek and Roman mythology, American Indians, and African figures. The symbolism of the figures is explained to reflect nearly-lost allegories that were well known 150 years ago. Over 200 color and many black and white photos display these fabulous clocks. An important additional feature is a visual directory of 1365 bronze clocks with bibliographic references that will hertofore make researching the field much more efficient.
Author : Derek Roberts
Publisher : Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN 13 : 9780764308734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Mystery, Novelty, and Fantasy Clocks written by Derek Roberts and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 300 clocks, for buildings or tabletops, which do far more than tell time, are presented with concise historical explanations, detailed drawings, and clear color photography. 700 years of clocks are studied, clocks that display magical acts, appear to require no power to drive them, or have no apparent connection between the movement and the hands. These mystery clocks are fascinating mechanisms.
Author : Peter Galison
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393243869
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time written by Peter Galison and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-09-17 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book Review A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others.…Galison has unearthed fascinating material" (New York Times). Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science were converging, step-by-step, on the answer: Albert Einstein, an young, obscure German physicist experimenting with measuring time using telegraph networks and with the coordination of clocks at train stations; and the renowned mathematician Henri Poincaré, president of the French Bureau of Longitude, mapping time coordinates across continents. Each found that to understand the newly global world, he had to determine whether there existed a pure time in which simultaneity was absolute or whether time was relative. Esteemed historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time.
Author : Lutz Hüwel
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1681741601
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Of Clocks and Time written by Lutz Hüwel and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Clocks and Time takes readers on a five-stop journey through the physics and technology (and occasional bits of applications and history) of timekeeping. On the way, conceptual vistas and qualitative images abound, but since mathematics is spoken everywhere the book visits equations, quantitative relations, and rigorous definitions are offered as well. The expedition begins with a discussion of the rhythms produced by the daily and annual motion of sun, moon, planets, and stars. Centuries worth of observation and thinking culminate in Newton's penetrating theoretical insights since his notion of space and time are still influential today. During the following two legs of the trip, tools are being examined that allow us to measure hours and minutes and then, with ever growing precision, the tiniest fractions of a second. When the pace of travel approaches the ultimate speed limit, the speed of light, time and space exhibit strange and counter-intuitive traits. On this fourth stage of the journey, Einstein is the local tour guide whose special and general theories of relativity explain the behavior of clocks under these circumstances. Finally, the last part of the voyage reverses direction, moving ever deeper into the past to explore how we can tell the age of "things" - including that of the universe itself.
Author : Derek Roberts
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764320217
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Precision Pendulum Clocks written by Derek Roberts and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume chronicles the horological work carried out in France, Germany, and North America and completes the fascinating history of precision timekeeping in recent time. Over 500 beautiful color and black-and-white photographs illustrate the historical contributions of renowned clockmakers from France and Germany. America's contribution to precision timekeeping is chronicled along with recent advancements in precision pendulum timekeeping.
Author : Alan Smith
Publisher : Bounty Books
ISBN 13 : 9781851529070
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The International Dictionary of Clocks written by Alan Smith and published by Bounty Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history and styles of clocks, mechanical workings, tools and materials, instrumentation, and international clockmaking
Author : Marvin E. Whitney
Publisher : Amer Watchmakers Inst
ISBN 13 : 9780918845085
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Ship's Chronometer written by Marvin E. Whitney and published by Amer Watchmakers Inst. This book was released on 1984-06-01 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Feldman
Publisher : Harper Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780060915155
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise? and Other Imponderables written by David Feldman and published by Harper Paperbacks. This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why, do clocks run clockwise? Why don't people get goosebumps o their faces?Why does the mon look larger on the horizon?
Author : Henry C. King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Geared to the Stars written by Henry C. King and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bendall
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1528953967
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Kendall's Longitude written by John Bendall and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOST AT SEA: EVERY MARINER'S FEAR. Maritime navigational tools could find latitude, but finding longitude remained elusive until Harrison developed the reliable sea clock, H4. Building on H4's success, Kendall made a series of nautical timekeepers, K1, K2 and K3. This is the story of the K2 timekeeper; its adventurous voyages, the people it touched, and its place in history. K2's first voyage, accompanied by the young Nelson, was nearly its last in the crushing Arctic ice. The next two expeditions saw it survive kidnappings, nautical intrigue, and gunpowder plots of the American revolutionary wars. The slave coasts of Africa followed. Bligh took K2 on the Bounty, but lost it in a fight with the mutineers in 1789. It was recovered by an American Quaker from Nantucket, only to be stolen by the Spanish. It rode on mules along the Andes before sailing into the Opium Wars. K2 finally returned to Greenwich in 1963. DRAMATIC, THREE NATION 'STORY OF TIME'
