A Clock For The Rooms The Horological Legacy Of The Library Company Of Philadelphia

Author : Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422362761
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ‘A Clock for the Rooms’: The Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Jay Robert Stiefel and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422366622
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library Company of Philadelphia: 2008 Annual Report written by and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stacy Perman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190100
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Grand Complication written by Stacy Perman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including the design and manufacture of America’s first luxury car—the elegant and storied Packard. Henry Graves, Jr., was the very essence of blue-blooded refinement in the early 1900s: son of a Wall Street financier, a central figure in New York high society, and a connoisseur of beautiful things—especially fine watches. Then, as now, expensive watches were the ultimate sign of luxury and wealth, but in the early twentieth century the limitless ambition, wealth, and creativity of these two men pushed the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, technology, and physics to create ever more ingenious timepieces. In any watch, features beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds are known as “complications.” Packard and Graves spurred acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe to create the Mona Lisa of timepieces—a fabled watch that incorporated twenty-four complications and took nearly eight years to design and build. For the period, it was the most complicated watch ever created. For years it disappeared, but then it surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1999, touching off a heated bidding war, shattering all known records when it fetched $11 million from an anonymous bidder. New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman takes us from the clubby world of New York high society into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers, and into the high-octane, often secretive subculture of modern-day watch collecting. With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.

Author : Renée Wolcott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606180815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art, Science, Invention written by Renée Wolcott and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the APS Library, is the world’s largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent American Philosophical Society Museum exhibitions, Curious Revolutionaries and Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection, included selected items from the collection. The conservation staff reviewed the selected items to ensure that they were stable enough to display for months without fading, discoloring, or suffering physical damage. When books or manuscripts could not be exhibited without conservation treatment, conservators repaired or stabilized them. Conservation of natural specimens and cultural artifacts is essential today, as it was for Charles Willson Peale when he opened his museum in Philosophical Hall. Renée Wolcott tells readers in her introduction, “As the owner of the nation’s first natural history museum, Charles Willson Peale served as both curator and conservator, concerned with selecting specimens for exhibition and preserving them for future museum visitors. He was also his own archivist, saving letters, diaries, and museum records that passed through his family for generations before becoming enshrined in the APS Library. This book examines the materials Peale and his family have left us, considers their preservation challenges, and discusses the evolution of conservation care for archival collections. Case studies of conservation treatment for six historic Peale-related artifacts illustrate some of the ways in which today’s conservators preserve the materials of the past for the sake of the future."--back cover.

Author : Thomas Parke Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801846144
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Networks of Power written by Thomas Parke Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1993-03 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awarded the Dexter Prize by the Society for the History of Technology, this book offers a comparative history of the evolution of modern electric power systems. It described large-scale technological change and demonstrates that technology cannot be understood unless placed in a cultural context.

Author : N. Hudson Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Clock Book written by N. Hudson Moore and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rose Pesotta
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875461274
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bread Upon the Waters written by Rose Pesotta and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald L. Fennimore
Publisher : Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library
ISBN 13 : 9780300233797
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Claggett written by Donald L. Fennimore and published by Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th century, Newport, Rhode Island, was home to some of the most skillful craftsmen in colonial North America. Among them were the clockmakers William Claggett (1694-1748), James Wady (d. 1759), and Thomas Claggett (1730-1797)--individuals whose surviving works became the best-known records of their lives. Although they flourished in an era widely considered as a golden age of prosperity in Newport, their stories remained elusive, with a few magnificent clocks the only testament to their place in pre-Revolutionary New England. Through a broad search of archival records and a hunt to locate and document not only the work of these artisans--featured here in stunning new photography--but also their interconnected lives, the authors offer a more accurate picture of these three men, their trade, and aspects of life in contemporary Newport. The resulting volume reveals their stories and extraordinary works: an important contribution to the history of masterful craftsmanship in Rhode Island. Distributed for Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library and the Newport Historical Society Exhibition Schedule: Newport Historical Society (12/08/18-04/21/19) Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport (12/08/18-04/21/19)

Author : Emily Faithfull
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1429004606
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Visits to America written by Emily Faithfull and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.

Author : Michael Adas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801497605
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Machines as the Measure of Men written by Michael Adas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.