Norfolk and Norwich Clocks and Clockmakers
Author: Clifford Bird
Publisher:
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860770289
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Suffolk Clocks & Clockmakers
Author: Arthur L. Haggar
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrass Dial Clocks
Author: Brian Loomes
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 454
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis important new title discusses the origins, style and development of domestic brass dial clocks made between the early seventeenth and the end of the eighteenth centuries. The book provides a detailed examination of eight day and thirty-hour clocks with hundreds of illustrated examples of longcase, bracket, lantern derivatives, hook-and-spike and hooded clocks. It examines the development and distribution of each, with a complete re-examination of prototype thirty-hour clockwork and the work of clocksmiths, with a detailed discussion on the recognition of styles of the various regions/countries. Some of these aspects are discussed here for the first time. This new title will have a wide appeal as the author assumes no prior knowledge of the subject from his reader and concerns himself exclusively with a discussion of accessible clocks, not the rare museum pieces so often featured in other horological publications. He concentrates mainly on regional types, but also includes a very small number of London clocks in order that comparisons may be made, and uses examples from all over Britain, including Scotland and Ireland, and many from America.
Zipfel & Sons, Norwich Clock and Watchmakers ...
Author: Alan L. Zipfel
Publisher:
Published: 1987*
Total Pages: 27
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiographical sketches, with emphasis on vital data, of the Zipfels, a 19th century family of clockmakers who left the Black Forest area of Germany to settle in various parts of Norwich County, England. Brief mention is made of Zipfels who lived in Birmingham. Family relationships are not shown.
The Automaton in English Renaissance Literature
Author: Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-23
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1317040805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Automaton in English Renaissance Literature features original essays exploring the automaton-from animated statue to anthropomorphized machine-in the poetry, prose, and drama of England in the 16th and 17th centuries. Addressing the history and significance of the living machine in early modern literature, the collection places literary automata of the period within their larger aesthetic, historical, philosophical, and scientific contexts. While no single theory or perspective conscribes the volume, taken as a whole the collection helps correct an assumption that frequently emerges from a post-Enlightenment perspective: that these animated beings are by definition exemplars of the new science, or that they point necessarily to man's triumphant relationship to technology. On the contrary, automata in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seem only partly and sporadically to function as embodiments of an emerging mechanistic or materialist worldview. Renaissance automata were just as likely not to confirm for viewers a hypothesis about the man-machine. Instead, these essays show, automata were often a source of wonder, suggestive of magic, proof of the uncannily animating effect of poetry-indeed, just as likely to unsettle the divide between man and divinity as that between man and matter.
Norwich Book of Days
Author: Carol Twinch
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-02-29
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 0752486071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the rich and colourful history of Norwich with this collection of tales from across the city.Featuring a story for every day of the year, it includes tales of skirmishes, rebellions and battles as well as milestones along history’s fascinating trail of popular culture. Why did Sir Thomas Erpingham build his famous gates at Norwich Cathedral. What connection does the war heroine Edith Cavell have with Norwich? And which ghost was said to haunted the city in the nineteen century?Featuring events from shortly after its foundation right up to the present day, this fascinating selection is sure to appeal to everyone interested in the history of one of Britain’s oldest cities.
Index to Norfolk Clock and Watchmakers
Author: John R. Webster
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWatchmakers and Clockmakers of the World
Author: Brian Loomes
Publisher: London : N.A.G. Press
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst compiled in 1929 as a pioneer work by the late G.H. Baillie, this directory of watchmakers and clock makers of the past soon established itself as the standard reference source and has been used ever since by watchmakers and clockmakers, collectors, dealers, museums, historians, and libraries the world over. The list of makers has more than doubled, having been thoroughly updated and revised by Brian Loomes in this twenty-first century edition, and now contains information on about 90,000 makers working between the late 16th and early 20th centuries. As well as the makers and retailers of clocks and watches, the list includes makers of scientific instruments, sundials, and barometers. Working dates include dates and places of birth, apprenticeship, freedom, marriage and death, as well as movement between different locations, and monograms. It is a unique and essential work of reference.
