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British Domestic Synchronous Clocks 1930-1980

Author : Leslie Philip Pook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319143883
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book British Domestic Synchronous Clocks 1930-1980 written by Leslie Philip Pook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book complements available one-make books on domestic synchronous clocks. It is also a history of science book that sets British domestic synchronous clocks, their manufacturers and technology in their social context. Part I covers the historical background, British domestic synchronous clock manufacturers and brands, how synchronous clocks work, domestic synchronous clock cases, practical advice on the servicing of domestic synchronous clocks and analysis of the marketing and reliability of British domestic synchronous clocks. This analysis provides an explanation of the rise and eventual fall of their technology. Part II contains galleries of a selection of British domestic synchronous clocks and of the movements with which they are fitted. There is a front and back view of each clock, together with a brief description. Views of each movement include views with the movement partly dismantled, together with a brief technical description of the movement. This profusely illustrated book is primarily for fellow enthusiasts and is based on an extensive archive of information on domestic synchronous clocks, their movements and their manufacturers. Current electrical regulations mean that professional clockmakers are reluctant to repair synchronous clocks. In fact, provided that they have not been mistreated, synchronous clocks are usually reliable, and quite easy to maintain.

Smiths Domestic Clocks

Author : Barrie Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781904661054
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Smiths Domestic Clocks written by Barrie Smith and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Domestic Clocks

Author : Herbert Cescinsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Domestic Clocks written by Herbert Cescinsky and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century

Author : John Glanville
Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 1847978967
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Book Synopsis Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century by : John Glanville

Download or read book Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century written by John Glanville and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a decade John Glanville and Bill Wolmuth undertook an important horological project for the British Museum. This involved establishing a representative collection, for the Museum, of twentieth-century domestic mechanical clocks made in England and Wales using industrialized manufacturing methods. This remarkable book is the culmination of their efforts. Wide-ranging in its coverage, it will be a key reference tool for horologists, horoligical students, collectors, and antiques and clock dealers. It provides a comprehensive history of each significant manufacturer, including the principal people involved and covers the various mechanical clock movements that were produced. Previously unpublished research about the manufacturers, the clocks they made and the dates when they were manufactured is presented. Finally, this book informs readers how they can identify and date almost all of the clocks they are likely to encounter. This detailed and meticulously researched book on the domestic mechanical clocks made in England and Wales in the twentieth century, a culmination of ten years' research by the authors, will be a key reference tool for horologists, horological students, collectors, and clock and antiques dealers. Superbly illustrated with 1016 colour photographs and period black and white illustrations.

A Long Time in Making

Author : James Nye
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191026786
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Long Time in Making written by James Nye and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smiths Group (formerly Smiths Industries), part of the UK FTSE 100 index, is a global engineering company with a market capitalisation over £5bn. Evolving from beginnings in the Victorian jewellery trade, to significant market presences in the twentieth century motor accessory, clock and watch industries, it has reinvented itself again as a diversified international company, operating in the medical, communications, security and engineered components sectors. Its narrative history, illuminating the reasons for its survival and adaptability, offers useful data and information to aid wider research into questions such as the legitimacy of conglomerates as a business model, the creation and maintenance of corporate culture, issues of succession, the effects of mergers and the questionable value placed upon targeted synergies-even the role of serendipity. The story begins with several generations of the Smith family amassing a fortune in retail, and then, following a 1914 stock-market flotation, describes the transition from family run business to the development of a professionally-run managerial enterprise. Since the 1970s it has had to face the decline of major markets and competitive pressures, leading to the adoption of new business lines, globalisation, and the internationalisation of its workforce. It now has 23,000 employees across more than 50 countries-along the way shocking the markets by abandoning core businesses and undergoing a controversial merger. Unfettered access to company records, and interviews with former staff members, provide insights into the strategy and management of the firm, illuminating the rich culture of Smiths, characterised by the frequent fostering of technical brilliance and a cast of larger than life characters.

A General History of Horology

Author : Anthony Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019260936X
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Anthony Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 738 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 fundamental, new and original research.

Vistas in Astronomy

Author : P. Beer
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483160912
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (831 download)

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Download or read book Vistas in Astronomy written by P. Beer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vistas in Astronomy

Restoring Grandfather Clocks

Author : Eric Smith
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719831644
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book Restoring Grandfather Clocks written by Eric Smith and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grandfather clock, an entirely new kind of furniture, first appeared in the late seventeenth century. From then on, with its long case to protect pendulum and weights, its rugged movement and large, clear indication of time, it has been a success story right up to the present day. Virtually none of these clocks is beyond repair and often the work required is within the scope of inexperienced owners. This is the first full-length book to cover repair and restoration of these attractive and often valuable antiques, including their casework. The first part outlines how to clean and service the clock 'works' and also how to refurbish the dial, while in the second part restoration or casework, both structural repairs and finishing, is considered. The illustrations are of two actual clocks (one eight-day and one thirty-hour) and work proceeding on them. The last part of the book sketches common variations from these particular examples. Armed with this book and appropriate tools (for work on both movement and case), the owner of a dilapidated grandfather clock will be encouraged and given the know-how to restore it to life as a useful and attractive clock and a prized possession.

Notes and Queries

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mastered by the Clock

Author : Mark M. Smith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807864579
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Mastered by the Clock written by Mark M. Smith and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of time. Drawing on an extraordinary range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century archival sources, Smith demonstrates that white southern slaveholders began to incorporate this new sense of time in the 1830s. Influenced by colonial merchants' fascination with time thrift, by a long-held familiarity with urban, public time, by the transport and market revolution in the South, and by their own qualified embrace of modernity, slaveowners began to purchase timepieces in growing numbers, adopting a clock-based conception of time and attempting in turn to instill a similar consciousness in their slaves. But, forbidden to own watches themselves, slaves did not internalize this idea to the same degree as their masters, and slaveholders found themselves dependent as much on the whip as on the clock when enforcing slaves' obedience to time. Ironically, Smith shows, freedom largely consolidated the dependence of masters as well as freedpeople on the clock.

NAWCC Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book NAWCC Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930

Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000571904
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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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.

Canadian Jeweller

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Jeweller written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700

Author : Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393324433
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (244 download)

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Download or read book Clocks and Culture, 1300-1700 written by Carlo M. Cipolla and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the clock opens a window on how different cultures have viewed time and on Europe's path to industrialization.

Long Case Clocks - With Pictures and Details of the Most Famous Examples

Author : Anon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144749105X
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Long Case Clocks - With Pictures and Details of the Most Famous Examples written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage book contains a interesting and informative treatise on long case clocks, being a detailed account of the history and development of these marvellous clocks complete with pictures and details of some of the most famous examples. This comprehensive and accessible guide will be of considerable utility to collectors and antique dealers, and it would make for a wonderful addition to collections of allied literature. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this vintage text now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned introduction on the history of clocks and watches.

Design

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster

Author : Chris McKay
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615080
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster by : Chris McKay

Download or read book Big Ben: the Great Clock and the Bells at the Palace of Westminster written by Chris McKay and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-05-27 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of 'Big Ben', the great clock and bells at Westminster, from the origins of Westminster as the seat of government right up to the celebrations of the Great Clock's 150th anniversary in 2009. The book begins by taking the reader through a typical visit to the Clock Tower, and then begins the history of the palace of Westminster, covering the fire of 1834, the building of the New Houses of Parliament and development of the clock and the bells, going into detail on their design and installation. The book covers the famous cracking of the current bell Big Ben in 1859, with sketches of all the characters involved, the two world wars, and the disaster of 1976. The book ends with a detailed technical description of the clock mechanism. The book is richly illustrated, and will appeal not only to clockmakers and horologists, but to bell enthusiasts, and those with an interest in our rich Victorian heritage.