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Author : Abraham Rees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Science
ISBN : WISC:89001708585
Author : Robin Fisher,Hugh J. M. Johnston
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 077480470X
Selected papers from the April 1992 Vancouver Conference on Exploration and Discovery examine George Vancouver's 1792-94 voyage to map the coast of North America--the last and longest of the great Pacific voyages of the late 18th century. Vancouver's remarkably precise charts became part of a process of economic exploitation and cultural disruption, and his name has come to symbolize the consequences, both good and bad, of European expansion. Thirteen contributions provide new insights on many aspects of Vancouver's travels, from technology to political relationships among explorers and Native leaders. Includes bandw illustrations and maps. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571905
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 : Anonim
Publisher : PediaPress
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Artemis Yagou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040110669
This book analyses aspects of the material culture of early modern Greece from an object-based perspective, using surviving artefacts from that period as primary sources. A printed book, a wine jug, an ecclesiastical embroidery, and a pocket watch are used as entry points to examine the consumer practices of the emerging Greek bourgeoisie under Ottoman rule in the long eighteenth century. The acquisition and usage of novel products – especially imported ones – by Greeks was connected to personal expression, identity building, and self-determination in the context of the Enlightenment. The enjoyment of innovative artefacts opened new horizons to them and facilitated their individual and collective empowerment. The originality of the book lies in its eclectic and interdisciplinary approach towards early modern Greek material culture, an under-researched topic. The study is embedded within contemporary discourses on transnational trade, the materiality of everyday life, pleasurable consumption, and the negotiation of identities. This volume will appeal to students and scholars of early modern and modern Greek history, Ottoman history, European history, material culture, history of technology, museum studies, and cultural heritage studies, as well as museum professionals, collectors, and the wider educated public.
Author : Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 777 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780198863915
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 fundamamental, new and original research.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : CHI:59242098
Author : David M. Knight
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : CHI:59242416
Author : Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Publisher : London : Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036971146
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1975-04
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : UOM:35128001586740
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082982904
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2976 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:B5158349
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UCAL:$B719638
Author : William J. H. Andrewes,Harvard University. Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Publisher : Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038608652
The Quest for Longitude is a book for students and for teachers, for collectors and for scholars, and for the thousands of people who, having enjoyed Sobel's Longitude, desire a well-illustrated reference that describes in detail the many fascinating devices and the intriguing characters who, by solving the ancient problem of finding longitude at sea, changed the world forever. 250 illustrations, 120 in color.