Time at the Watch and Clock Museum
Author | : Patricia A. Tomes |
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Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Author | : Patricia A. Tomes |
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Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Author | : David Rooney |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324021950 |
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.
Author | : Clare Vincent |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-11-25 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 1588395790 |
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.
Author | : William Andrewes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Science |
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Author | : Harry Chase Brearley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
ISBN | : |
An overview of the permanent exhibit at the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, PA published in honor of the museum's fortieth anniversary.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 20 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Author | : Andrew Kenneth Johnston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1588344916 |
If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.
Author | : François Chaille |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-03-02 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 2080236520 |
The Beauty of Time, published in partnership with the prestigious Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, presents a panorama of the most beautiful timepieces from the Middle Ages to the present. The book contains a thoughtfully curated selection of nearly two hundred wonders--from mechanical and pendulum clocks to pocket- and wristwatches.