Beyond the Longcase Clock
Beyond the Longcase Clock

Author: Hayley Patton

Publisher: Silver Frog Press

Published: 2019-06-28

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1916096824

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An ancient spell gone wrong. A legacy of time travel. The latest unsuspecting heir. Fifteen-year-old Sophia McAskie can see an object's past just by touching it. She doesn’t know why. She can’t control it. And she doesn’t know she can time travel. Finding out will be an epic adventure... One day, while cleaning the grandfather clock in her dad’s antiques shop, Sophia accidentally sends herself and her brother tumbling into the house of a Victorian gentleman. Before she can figure out what happened, a mysterious time traveller with sinister plans demands their custody, igniting a gruelling chase through unfamiliar times and foreign lands. Lost and on the run, with no idea how to get home, the siblings win the help of an intrepid local boy in their battle for survival. But in a web of magic and hidden agendas, who can they trust? When a devious figure tears the siblings apart, Sophia must master her powers if she is ever going to find her brother and return home to safety. If she fails, they’ll be trapped in the past forever... Beyond the Longcase Clock is the first book in the YA fantasy time-travel series Chronicles of the Chiliad. If you like fast-paced adventure, vivid historical settings, and unpredictable magical powers, then you’ll love the first instalment in Hayley Patton’s compelling new series. Buy Beyond the Longcase Clock to embark on this exciting journey today!

Restoring Grandfather Clocks
Restoring Grandfather Clocks

Author: Eric Smith

Publisher: Robert Hale

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780719802706

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"The grandfather clock, an entirely new kind of furniture, first appeared in the late seventeenth century. From then on, with its long case to protect pendulum and weights, its rugged movement and large, clear indication of time, it has been a success story right up to the present day. Virtually none of these clocks is beyond repair and often the work required is within the scope of inexperienced owners. This is the first full-length book to cover repair and restoration of these attractive and often valuable antiques, including their casework. The first part outlines how to clean and service the clock 'works' and also how to refurbish the dial, while in the second part restoration or casework, both structural repairs and finishing, is considered. The illustrations are of two actual clocks (one eight-day and one thirty-hour) and work proceeding on them. The last part of the book sketches common variations from these particular examples. Armed with this book and appropriate tools (for work on both movement and case), the owner of a dilapidated grandfather clock will be encouraged and given the know-how to restore it to life as a useful and attractive clock and a prized possession."--Wheelers.co.nz.

Beyond Information
Beyond Information

Author: Tom Stonier

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1447118359

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Preamble The emergence of machine intelligence during the second half of the twentieth century is the most important development in the evolution of this planet since the origin of life two to three thousand million years ago. The emergence of machine intelligence within the matrix of human society is analogous to the emergence, three billion years ago, of complex, self-replicating molecules within the matrix of an energy-rich molecular soup - the first step in the evolution of life. The emergence of machine intelligence within a human social context has set into motion irreversible processes which will lead to an evolutionary discontinuity. Just as the emergence of "Life" represented a qualitatively different form of organisation of matter and energy, so will pure "Intelligence" represent a qualitatively different form of organisation of matter, energy and life. The emergence of machine intelligence presages the progression of the human species as we know it, into a form which, at present, we would not recognise as "human". As Forsyth and Naylor (1985) have pointed out: "Humanity has opened two Pandora's boxes at the same time, one labelled genetic engineering, the other labelled knowledge engineering. What we have let out is not entirely clear, but it is reasonable to hazard a guess that it contains the seeds of our successors".

The Realm of Beyond
The Realm of Beyond

Author: Venna Jackson

Publisher: Bighorn Publishing

Published: 2002-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780972280839

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This is a charming tale of fantasy, enchantment, and adventure.

Beyond Forever
Beyond Forever

Author: M. W. Davis

Publisher: Champagne Book Group

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 21

ISBN-13:

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Hanna’s organized life has been fractured by one mistake, one incredible night with a stranger, and now her world has descended into unbearable solitude. Days burning sunlight in a mind numbing haze, nights staring into the black void enveloping her empty bed, until a peculiar man lost within his own shadows, offers a path to resolution. To purge the memories that hound her thoughts and block her return to a normal existence, she must circle back to where it all began.

Clockmaking - Past And Present
Clockmaking - Past And Present

Author: G. F. C. Gordon

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2013-04-16

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1447488989

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This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocking making. This text is a veritable must-have for anyone with a keen interest in clocks and watches, and includes detailed, interesting information on the history of clock making, descriptions of the inner machinations and composition of clocks, and much more besides. Although old, the information contained herein is timeless, and will be of as much utility to modern readers as it was to those contemporary with its original publication. The chapters of this book include: A history of clocks and watches, Materials, Tools, Wheels and pinions, Escapements, Pendulums, Motive power, Striking mechanisms, Lantern clocks, Long case clocks, Bracket clocks, The age of a movement, Clock hands, British clocks for export, etcetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now in a modern, affordable edition complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.

Beyond the Battles
Beyond the Battles

Author: C. P. Hillen

Publisher: Cynthia Hillen

Published: 2007-07

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781600471094

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Boston meets Alabama in London and sparks fly when a southern belle and a staunch abolitionist become roommates at an exclusive academy for young women. Convictions and loyalties are challenged as they make their way through the ensuing chaos and destruction of the Civil War. In a world turned upside down, can they find hope and happiness?

Beyond The Realm
Beyond The Realm

Author: Felicia Sanders

Publisher: Author House

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1467085510

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In each of these short stories, a glimmer of justice prevails in a strange and unexpected way. Combining some pieces of my life, imagination, and love of fiction, my goal is to write tales to give the reader a feeling of optimism. Some of these stories will leave you questioning some of the people, you have came across in your lifetime.

The Clockmaker's Daughter
The Clockmaker's Daughter

Author: Kate Morton

Publisher: Atria Books

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 145164941X

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of the New York Times bestseller Homecoming—“An ambitious, compelling historical mystery with a fabulous cast of characters…Kate Morton at her very best.” —Kristin Hannah “An elaborate tapestry…Morton doesn’t disappoint.” —The Washington Post "Classic English country-house Goth at its finest." —New York Post In the depths of a 19th-century winter, a little girl is abandoned on the streets of Victorian London. She grows up to become in turn a thief, an artist’s muse, and a lover. In the summer of 1862, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, she travels with a group of artists to a beautiful house on a bend of the Upper Thames. Tensions simmer and one hot afternoon a gunshot rings out. A woman is killed, another disappears, and the truth of what happened slips through the cracks of time. It is not until over a century later, when another young woman is drawn to Birchwood Manor, that its secrets are finally revealed. Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.