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Author : Arthur Lionel Rawlings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Science of Clocks and Watches written by Arthur Lionel Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upton Hall, Upton, Newark, Notts. NG23 5TE.
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 : Ruxu Du
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642293077
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Mechanics of Mechanical Watches and Clocks written by Ruxu Du and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-21 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mechanics of Mechanical Watches and Clocks" presents historical views and mathematical models of mechanical watches and clocks. Although now over six hundred years old, mechanical watches and clocks are still popular luxury items that fascinate many people around the world. However few have examined the theory of how they work as presented in this book. The illustrations and computer animations are unique and have never been published before. It will be of significant interest to researchers in mechanical engineering, watchmakers and clockmakers, as well as people who have an engineering background and are interested in mechanical watches and clocks. It will also inspire people in other fields of science and technology, such as mechanical engineering and electronics engineering, to advance their designs. Professor Ruxu Du works at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. Assistant Professor Longhan Xie works at the South China University of Technology, China.
Author : Arthur Lionel Rawlings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The science of clocks and watches written by Arthur Lionel Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Chad Orzel
Publisher : BenBella Books
ISBN 13 : 1953295940
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (532 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Timekeeping written by Chad Orzel and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER — HISTORY: GENERAL ". . . inherently interesting, unique, and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and academic library Physics of Time & Scientific Measurement history collections, and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review "A wonderful look into understanding and recording time, Orzel’s latest is appropriate for all readers who are curious about those ticks and tocks that mark nearly every aspect of our lives." —Booklist “A thorough, enjoyable exploration of the history and science behind measuring time.” —Foreword Reviews It’s all a matter of time—literally. From the movements of the spheres to the slipperiness of relativity, the story of science unfolds through the fascinating history of humanity’s efforts to keep time. Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that radically reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Orzel, a physicist and the bestselling author of Breakfast with Einstein and How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog continues his tradition of demystifying thorny scientific concepts by using the clocks and calendars central to our everyday activities as a jumping-off point to explore the science underlying the ways we keep track of our time. Ancient solstice markers (which still work perfectly 5,000 years later) depend on the basic astrophysics of our solar system; mechanical clocks owe their development to Newtonian physics; and the ultra-precise atomic timekeeping that enables GPS hinges on the predictable oddities of quantum mechanics. Along the way, Orzel visits the delicate negotiations involved in Gregorian calendar reform, the intricate and entirely unique system employed by the Maya, and how the problem of synchronizing clocks at different locations ultimately required us to abandon the idea of time as an absolute and universal quantity. Sharp and engaging, A Brief History of Timekeeping is a story not just about the science of sundials, sandglasses, and mechanical clocks, but also the politics of calendars and time zones, the philosophy of measurement, and the nature of space and time itself. For those interested in science, technology, or history, or anyone who’s ever wondered about the instruments that divide our days into moments: the time you spend reading this book may fly, and it is certain to be well spent.
Author : Scott Alan Johnston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228009642
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Clocks Are Telling Lies written by Scott Alan Johnston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways – from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling.
Author : James Jespersen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486409139
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book From Sundials to Atomic Clocks written by James Jespersen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear and accessible introduction to the concept of time examines measurement, historic timekeeping methods, uses of time information, role of time in science and technology, and much more. Over 300 illustrations.
Author : Ward L. Goodrich
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Modern Clock written by Ward L. Goodrich and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Modern Clock: A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation and Repair" by Ward L. Goodrich may seem like any of the countless manuals or technical works written about clocks over the years. As a delicate and complicated piece of machinery, having the most up-to-date information regarding its maintenance is of the utmost importance. However, Goodrich shows his expertise and ability to teach by providing readers with not only an informative text, but also one that is easy-to-understand and somehow still entertaining.
Author : David Rooney
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1324021950
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)
Download or read book About Time written by David Rooney and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.
Author : Philip Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Own Right Time written by Philip Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pendulum is a constant source of interest to scientists. Great and well-known inventors such as Galileo, Huygens, and Kelvin all devised mechanisms to maintain its even oscillations. Others such as John Harrison, Lord Grimthorpe, and William Shortt are known only in horological circles but contributed as much or more over three centuries. By writing a personal account of his own inventions and achievements in horology the author involves the reader in the history of precision time-keeping before the advent of atomic clocks and the quartz chip. Escapements, the mechanisms that drive pendulums, are a delight to the geometrical mind as well as a delicate and subtle challenge to the mechanical engineer. In their most refined form pendulum clocks not only keep astonishingly accurate time they are also sensitive enough to detect the ebb and flow of tides and even the ceaseless quivering of the Earth itself. Philip Woodward's deep knowledge of and passion for time-keeping mechanisms is evident throughout this highly readable and fascinating account of precision horology.
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:
Author : Carlo Rovelli
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735216118
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Order of Time written by Carlo Rovelli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of TIME’s Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade "Meet the new Stephen Hawking . . . The Order of Time is a dazzling book." --The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Reality Is Not What It Seems, Helgoland, and Anaximander comes a concise, elegant exploration of time. Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for time to "flow"? Do we exist in time or does time exist in us? In lyric, accessible prose, Carlo Rovelli invites us to consider questions about the nature of time that continue to puzzle physicists and philosophers alike. For most readers this is unfamiliar terrain. We all experience time, but the more scientists learn about it, the more mysterious it remains. We think of it as uniform and universal, moving steadily from past to future, measured by clocks. Rovelli tears down these assumptions one by one, revealing a strange universe where at the most fundamental level time disappears. He explains how the theory of quantum gravity attempts to understand and give meaning to the resulting extreme landscape of this timeless world. Weaving together ideas from philosophy, science and literature, he suggests that our perception of the flow of time depends on our perspective, better understood starting from the structure of our brain and emotions than from the physical universe. Already a bestseller in Italy, and written with the poetic vitality that made Seven Brief Lessons on Physics so appealing, The Order of Time offers a profoundly intelligent, culturally rich, novel appreciation of the mysteries of time.
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 : 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.
Author : David Christianson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845734923
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Timepieces written by David Christianson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated and inspirational tribute to the science of accurate time measurement. Showcasing the finest timepieces in history from the early Chinese water clocks to the atomic clocks of today. An authoritative and fascinating reference to timekeeping through the ages for the enthusiast or would be horologist.
Author : J. Eric Haswell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Horology written by J. Eric Haswell and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
