Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : CHI:81512561
NAWCC Bulletin
Anonim
Nawcc Bulletin
Nawcc Bulletin Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Nawcc Bulletin book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Bulletin
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
Author : National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : PSU:000005155170
Bulletin by National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Pdf
Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : CHI:59242447
Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors by Anonim Pdf
Bulletin
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
Author : National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021578229
Bulletin by National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors Pdf
No. 1 also includes miscellaneous material issued by the association under its earlier name: Watch Collectors Club.
100 Years of Vintage Watches
Dean Judy
Author : Dean Judy
Publisher : Echo Point Books & Media, LLC
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
100 Years of Vintage Watches by Dean Judy Pdf
Telling time has never been so stylish. 100 Years of Vintage Watches brings an entire century of classic watch craftsmanship to life with over 1,000 full-color photos. Detailing watches made between 1870 and 1970—the most popular century for watch collectors and aficionados—Dean Judy’s remarkable guide provides information on what and how to collect as well as what to avoid. In addition to large, detailed photos, 100 Years of Vintage Watches offers accurate pricing information, and a description, history, and dating for each of the watches included. Watch collectors will find the before-and-after photos of vintage watch restorations particularly useful, especially when it comes valuing a piece. And who knows, maybe that old watch your grandfather left in his junk drawer is worth thousands. Featuring examples from over 50 watchmakers including renowned Swiss companies like Agassiz, Rolex, Breitling, Cyma, Tissot, and Zodiak as well as American companies like Bulova, Elgin, Hamilton, and Illinois, 100 Years of Vintage Watches is a comprehensive and practical guide to the greatest century of watchmaking in modern history.
Watches
Dean Judy
Author : Dean Judy
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781440219085
Watches by Dean Judy Pdf
Watches are more than devices useful for monitoring the time you have left in a day, assessing where the day went or when you need to be someplace. They look good, they help keep life organized and they can be some of the most impressive collectibles or heirlooms you will ever find. Within the book of this time keeper's must-have, you will discover more than 1,000 color photos of wristwatches and pocket watches, detailed descriptions and up-to-date pricing for famous makers such as Elgin, Longines, Omega, Hamilton, Rolex and Bulova.
Selling the True Time
Ian R. Bartky
Author : Ian R. Bartky
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 0804738742
Selling the True Time by Ian R. Bartky Pdf
This first comprehensive, scholarly history of timekeeping in America studies the transition from local to national timekeeping, a process that led to Standard Time—the worldwide system of timekeeping by which we all live. The book describes the contributions of the railroad industry, university astronomers, clockmakers, and civil and electrical engineers.
Studebaker and the Railroads - Volume 2
Jan Young
Author : Jan Young
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780557093830
Studebaker and the Railroads - Volume 2 by Jan Young Pdf
Studebaker and the Railroads is a history of the Studebaker Corporation and of the railroads that served it in and around the city of South Bend, Indiana. Both Studebaker and the railroads of northern Indiana have extensive and dramatic histories and there are many connections between the two. Studebaker lovers and railfans will equally enjoy the stories and facts reported.Divided into two volumes, Studebaker and the Railroads comprises over four hundred fifty pages and contains over three hundred fifty photographs, drawings, maps and diagrams.Volume 1 covers the Studebaker and the steam railroads that once decorated South Bend. Volume 2 covers the extensive electric railroad history of the area and includes a history of Studebaker's private in-plant railroad, the Chicago & South Bend, together with additional topics linking Studebaker and railroading. Both volumes feature detailed indexes. Volume 2 includes an extensive bibliography, numerous maps, and corporate history charts.
The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930
Alun C. Davies
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571905
The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 by Alun C. Davies Pdf
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.
Marine Chronometers at Greenwich
Jonathan Betts
Author : Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780191511172
Marine Chronometers at Greenwich by Jonathan Betts Pdf
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.
Making Time
Yulia Frumer
Author : Yulia Frumer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226524719
Making Time by Yulia Frumer Pdf
What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything—it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In Making Time, Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in Japan to show that humans perceive time as constructed and concrete. In the mid-sixteenth century, when the first mechanical clocks arrived in Japan from Europe, the Japanese found them interesting but useless, because they failed to display time in units that changed their length with the seasons, as was customary in Japan at the time. In 1873, however, the Japanese government adopted the Western equal-hour system as well as Western clocks. Given that Japan carried out this reform during a period of rapid industrial development, it would be easy to assume that time consciousness is inherent to the equal-hour system and a modern lifestyle, but Making Time suggests that punctuality and time-consciousness are equally possible in a society regulated by a variable-hour system, arguing that this reform occurred because the equal-hour system better reflected a new conception of time — as abstract and universal—which had been developed in Japan by a narrow circle of astronomers, who began seeing time differently as a result of their measurement and calculation practices. Over the course of a few short decades this new way of conceptualizing time spread, gradually becoming the only recognized way of treating time.
Hamilton Wristwatches A Reference Guide
Bruce Shawkey
Author : Bruce Shawkey
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780692746042
Hamilton Wristwatches A Reference Guide by Bruce Shawkey Pdf
A guide for Hamilton wristwatch collectors to identify watches made between 1917 and 1969.
Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius
Silvio Bedini
Author : Silvio Bedini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004464513
Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius by Silvio Bedini Pdf
Giuseppe Campani, “Inventor Romae,” an Uncommon Genius offers an account of the life and creations of the most talented maker of optic lenses, silent clocks and projector clocks of the second half of the seventeenth century but also provides you with unique insights into the scientific and technological landscape of baroque Rome and its links to a broader European scene.
A New Nation of Goods
David Jaffee
Author : David Jaffee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812222005
A New Nation of Goods by David Jaffee Pdf
A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.
Harrison Decoded
Rory McEvoy,Jonathan Betts
Author : Rory McEvoy,Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780192548801
Harrison Decoded by Rory McEvoy,Jonathan Betts Pdf
Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one-hundred-times the stability of those made by his contemporaries. However, his final publication, which promised to describe the system, was a chaotic jumble of information, much of which had nothing to do with clockwork. One contemporary reviewer of Harrison's book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison's 'superannuated dotage.' The focus of this book centres on the making, adjusting, and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system, Clock B's performance, the methods of data-gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison's clockmaking, that of his contemporaries, and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought.