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The Time Museum Historical Catalogue Of American Pocket Watches
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Book Synopsis The Time Museum Historical Catalogue of American Pocket Watches by : Donald Hoke
Download or read book The Time Museum Historical Catalogue of American Pocket Watches written by Donald Hoke and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and depicts American pocket watches manufactured between 1771 and 1945, offering examples from virtually every watchmaker and manufacturer and chronicling the rise, development, dominance, and decline of the American watch industry
Book Synopsis Marking Modern Times by : Alexis McCrossen
Download or read book Marking Modern Times written by Alexis McCrossen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tells a story of a period when the quest for accurate timekeeping became an obsession in the US.” —Choice The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces—bells, time balls, and clock faces—that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares beneath them, men, women, and children wear wristwatches of all kinds. Americans have decorated their homes with clocks and included them in their poetry, sermons, stories, and songs. And as political instruments, social tools, and cultural symbols, these personal and public timekeepers have enjoyed a broad currency in art, life, and culture. In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks. While noting the difficulties in regulating and synchronizing so many timepieces, McCrossen expands our understanding of the development of modern time discipline, delving into the ways we have standardized time and describing how timekeepers have served as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that doesn’t merely value time but regards access to time as a natural-born right, a privilege of being an American. “A precise, acute, and well-measured monograph.” —Journal of Social History “Important and engaging.” —Journal of American History “ An innovative contribution on a key historical shift in modern life.” —Urban History “An authoritative narrative of how and where time and timepieces were distributed in the period.” —Reviews in American History
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Book Synopsis European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by : Clare Vincent
Download or read book European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Clare Vincent and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Time by : Samuel L. Macey
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Time written by Samuel L. Macey and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1994 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Book Synopsis A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900 by : Lawrence B. Romaine
Download or read book A Guide to American Trade Catalogs, 1744-1900 written by Lawrence B. Romaine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invaluable listing of rare catalogs selling cars, beekeeper's equipment, clocks, firearms, livestock, clothes, toys, more. Cites catalog's location, size, more.
Book Synopsis A General History of Horology by : Turner
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.
Book Synopsis The Time Museum by : William Andrewes
Download or read book The Time Museum written by William Andrewes and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Complete Price Guide to Watches by : Tom Engle
Download or read book Complete Price Guide to Watches written by Tom Engle and published by Tinderbox. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Price Guide to Watches is the most reliable and convenient guide available. This annual book is a miniature encyclopedia with over 1,200 pages, over 10,350 watches listed with current values, and more than 7,850 illustrations. American and European pocket watches, wrist watches, and even comic character watches fill this comprehensive guide. It also includes tips for collectors and historical information, as well as guidelines for grading and appraising watches. There are thousands of price changes, and once again a handy index that appeared for the first time in the 2006 edition. With this handy pocket reference, collectors can make on-the-spot judgments about identification, age, quality, and value. Complete Price Guide to Watches has become the professional standard for watch collectors and dealers. 2007 values.
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Catalogs by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patek Philippe by : Nicholas Foulkes
Download or read book Patek Philippe written by Nicholas Foulkes and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors by :
Download or read book Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
