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Book Synopsis The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang by : Sue Newman
Download or read book The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang written by Sue Newman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang offers a fascinating insight into the origin of clocks and watches and what this industry meant to the people of Christchurch.
Book Synopsis The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang by : Sue Newman
Download or read book The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang written by Sue Newman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang offers a fascinating insight into the origin of clocks and watches and what this industry meant to the people of Christchurch.
Book Synopsis Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain by : Serena Dyer
Download or read book Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain written by Serena Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.
Book Synopsis In Search of Dr Tancred from Cork by : Bernard Hall
Download or read book In Search of Dr Tancred from Cork written by Bernard Hall and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I grew up hearing tales of a great-great grandfather, a Catholic man of the cloth from Cork who eloped with a nun. As a child I found ancestors dead-boring, living relations bad enough.
Book Synopsis A General History of Horology by : Anthony Turner
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.
Book Synopsis Marine Chronometers at Greenwich by : Jonathan Betts
Download or read book Marine Chronometers at Greenwich written by Jonathan Betts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Chronometers at Greenwich is the fifth, and largest, of the distinguished series of catalogues of instruments in the collections of the National Maritime Museum. Housed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich — the 'home of time' and the Prime Meridian of the world — this extraordinary collection, which includes the celebrated marine timekeepers by John Harrison (1693-1776), is generally considered to be the finest of its kind in existence. The book is however much more than just a catalogue, and includes an accessible and engaging history of the chronometer, revealing why these instruments were important in our scientific and cultural history, and explaining, in simple terms, how they worked and were used. A comprehensive Glossary and Bibliography are included to ensure any technicalities are explained and that the reader has suggestions for useful 'further reading'. Over 480 photographs and illustrations, including many fine macro-photographs and line drawings, illustrate the 'jewel-like' beauty of the chronometer's construction and explain the function and subtleties of its mechanism. A chapter on 'How the Chronometer was Made', describes the fine sub-division of labour used to create these special machines, from bare metal, right up to delivery on board ship, and brief biographies of the makers tell the human story behind this important nineteenth-century industry. Another chapter, 'The Evolution of the Chronometer', aimed at collectors, historians and curators, provides clearly structured information on assessing and dating the chronometer, something many find difficult. And, for the dedicated specialist, there is extensive tabulated data on the technical structure of this important collection, a unique resource for future research.
Book Synopsis Machine Shop and Engineering Manufacture by :
Download or read book Machine Shop and Engineering Manufacture written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by : Douglas Mawson
Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 written by Douglas Mawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910; Australian geologist Griffith Taylor went instead. Dawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole.
Download or read book Homophones and Homographs written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded fourth edition defines and cross-references 9,040 homophones and 2,133 homographs (up from 7,870 and 1,554 in the 3rd ed.). As the most comprehensive compilation of American homophones (words that sound alike) and homographs (look-alikes), this latest edition serves well where even the most modern spell-checkers and word processors fail--although rain, reign, and rein may be spelled correctly, the context in which these words may appropriately be used is not obvious to a computer.
Download or read book Vista Tales- written by Gerald R. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homophones and Homographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews of the first edition: The best roster of these phenomena--Wilson Library Bulletin; a good choice for any library--RQ. Now greatly expanded, the second edition includes over 7,000 (up from 3,500) homophones (words that sound alike) and over 1,400 (up from 600) homographs (look-alikes). Words are defined and cross referenced.
Book Synopsis Early American Tower Clocks by : Frederick Shelley
Download or read book Early American Tower Clocks written by Frederick Shelley and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardcover2nd edition
Book Synopsis Christchurch Through Time by : Sue Newman
Download or read book Christchurch Through Time written by Sue Newman and published by . This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Christchurch illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Book Synopsis The Christchurch and Bournemouth Union Workhouse by : Sue Newman
Download or read book The Christchurch and Bournemouth Union Workhouse written by Sue Newman and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World by : Granville Hugh Baillie
Download or read book Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World written by Granville Hugh Baillie and published by Robert Hale Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 36,000 entries, this reference book documents watchmakers and clockmakers throughout the world, from the earliest records of the 14th century to 1825. Localities and dates are given in each case, together with work in museums and collections and historical notes.
Book Synopsis English Competence Handbook by : Paul Kalkstein
Download or read book English Competence Handbook written by Paul Kalkstein and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Competence Handbook provides a simple, clear, and thoroughly proven method of building non-fiction writing ability and increasing a writer's confidence. Cited as a tool for literacy by Time/I> magazine in its cover story "Why Johnny Can't Write," The English Competence Handbook provides teacher and student with a graduated, easy-to-use program to develop writing and reading skills. The program moves from the sentence, to the paragraph, to the whole essay, and brings the writer beyond competence to a sense of grace and style in composition. The English Competence Handbook has been used successfully in secondary schools and colleges throughout the country. The authors of the English Competence Handbook are long-time English teachers at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, America's oldest incorporated boarding school. Each of them has consulted with various school systems across the nation.
Book Synopsis Crime and Deviance by : Greg Newbold
Download or read book Crime and Deviance written by Greg Newbold and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey traces changes that have occurred in the past three decades not only in New Zealand crime, but also in patterns of behaviour (such as homosexuality and gang membership) which, although not illegal, are still seen by society as deviant.
