Clockmakers of Northern England
Author: Brian Loomes
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
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Author: Brian Loomes
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 326
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Published: 2014-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780955446078
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important new biographical reference source details all the known information about every recorded clockmaker, watchmaker and others working in the horological trades in the British Isles born before 1700. This book includes 6,230 makers, as well as their known apprentices or journeymen. Much of this information is presented for the first time and is not available elsewhere. References are given to detailed articles about particular clockmakers.
Author: Joseph McKenna
Publisher: Mayfield Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anon
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Published: 2013-04-16
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 1447490479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Tony Branston
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Pearson
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780952327073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Robey
Publisher:
Published: 2001-07-01
Total Pages: 798
ISBN-13: 9780954052508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael S. Potts
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780952327080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0802779433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Author: William Linnard
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780954052553
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