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Author : Richard Garnier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993202001
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of English Horology written by Richard Garnier and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anon
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447490479
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clock Makers and Clock Manufacture in the North East of England - Celebrated Clock Manufacturers from the Golden Age of Northern Horology written by Anon and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to the clock makers and clock manufacture in the north east of England, being a discussion of celebrated clock manufacture from the golden age of northern horology. Containing a wealth of interesting historical information and a plethora of detailed illustrations, this volume will appeal to those with a keen interest in the history and development of English clock manufacture, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: A History of Clocks and Watches, Clock Making in York, Clockmaking in Wensleydale, Clockmaking in Craven, Clockmaking in Halifax, and Clockmaking in York. We are republishing this vintage book now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.
Author : Dennis Radage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994046000
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charles Gretton written by Dennis Radage and published by . This book was released on 2016-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm Wild
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719843618
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wheel & Pinion Cutting in Horology written by Malcolm Wild and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2001-07-23 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many clock repairers carry out excellent work but avoid cutting their own wheels and pinions, fearing it is too complicated and involved. This book, written by an experienced clock and tool maker, dispels those fears and gives a step-by-step guide to an extremely satisfying aspect of horology. This book is written for both the amateur and professional involved in the making and restoring of clocks, and for anyone who intends to start building up a workshop and requires a guide to the equipment and how to use it.
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000571904
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Dennis Radage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780994046017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book Charles Gretton written by Dennis Radage and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rory McEvoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198816812
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)
Download or read book Harrison Decoded written by Rory McEvoy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exposition of the lesser-known work of one of the giants of the 18th century longitude story, the maverick clockmaker John Harrison (1693-1776). Harrison's background, methodology, and thinking. For those with a practical interest, the book is an excellent starting point for anyone wishing to make a clock of this type.
Author : Anthony Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019260936X
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
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.
Author : John Cronin
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719840899
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)
Download or read book Watch - An Illustrated Guide to its History and Mechanism written by John Cronin and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The watch has a long and fascinating history, from a fifteenth-century status symbol of the rich and powerful to the mass-produced everyday timepiece of modern times. This book describes the main technical developments across a 500-year timespan, from the beginnings in Germany and France, through the golden age of English horology in the 18th century, to the development of modern factory production in America and Switzerland. It also sets out to give the general reader and collector a grasp of the key technological developments in watch and sets the lives of the inventors and artisans in the context of the social and economic history of their times. With over 290 photographs and 3D diagrams, this book includes an extensive listing and history of watch brands and manufacturers to assist in identification along with a useful glossary of terms.
Author : Kristen Lippincott
Publisher : Merrell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Time written by Kristen Lippincott and published by Merrell. This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tentoonstellingscatalogus over de cultuurgeschiedenis van tijd en tijdmeting, de voorstelling van tijd in de beeldende kunst en tijdsbesef in verschillende perioden en culturen.
