Time Telling through the Ages

Time Telling through the Ages

Author: Harry Chase Brearley

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-03

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Harry Chase Brearly in this book gives a detailed description of the history of timekeeping from the stone age through the invention of modern clocks and watches. He described so many important parts of technologies of time-telling devices such as water clocks with the explanation of essential parts that makes up the mechanism of clocks. This book also covers the idea and philosophy of time.


About Time

About Time

Author: David Rooney

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2022-08-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1324021950

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One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.


Timekeeping

Timekeeping

Author: Linda Formichelli

Publisher: Build It Yourself

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781619301368

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"[This book] travels through the past and into the future to explore how humans have measured the passage of time."--P. [4] of cover.


Back to the Future: Telling Time with Marty McFly

Back to the Future: Telling Time with Marty McFly

Author: Insight

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 1683839412

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Learn to tell time with Marty McFly! Turn the wheel to find the correct clock that matches the time on each page following a typical day with Marty, Doc Brown, and Einstein.


How to Tell Time

How to Tell Time

Author: DK

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2019-07-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1465484450

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A fun first guide to how to tell time, this bright and bold lift-the-flap activity book features a clock with moveable hands! Telling time is a key topic for early learners. This charming and colorful book helps kids understand the basics of telling time. Fully interactive, the book features lift-the-flap puzzles that help kids to relate telling the time to everyday life - posing questions such as "It's 8:15 - is it time for breakfast?," "Does it take 2 minutes to brush your teeth?." How to Tell Time introduces kids to how we measure time using seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. It gets kids learning to tell and write the time to the nearest five minutes. There is a flap attached to the front jacket that opens to reveal an amazing clock with moveable hands. Quiz questions that relate to the clock are found sprinkled throughout the book, encouraging kids to move the hands on the clock face and tell the correct time. Telling time is often a subject that children find hard to grapple with. This book is just what those children need, as it tackles the subject in a fully interactive and playful way.


The Clock Struck One

The Clock Struck One

Author: Trudy Harris

Publisher: Lerner Digital ™

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1512478946

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! When the clock strikes one, a fun-loving mouse runs up the clock. But what happens when the clock strikes two? A cat gets hungry for mouse-tail stew . . . and the chase is on! Hour by hour, more animals—and even a few people—join in. The crowd charges into the barnyard, dashes through the kitchen, and eventually heads right into the middle of town. Keep your eye on the many clocks in this book and follow along until this twelve-hour race comes to a surprising end!


Telling Time with Big Mama Cat

Telling Time with Big Mama Cat

Author: Dan Harper

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9780152017385

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A cat describes her activities at various times throughout the day from morning to night. Features a clock with movable hands.


Lift-The-Flap Telling the Time

Lift-The-Flap Telling the Time

Author: Rosie Hore

Publisher: Usborne Books

Published: 2023-11-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781805070672

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What does that clock say? When are 12 a.m. and 12 p.m.? And how long is a century? Children can lift over 125 flaps to find out how to read the hours and minutes on digital and analogue clocks, and learn about a.m. and p.m. and 24-hour time. There's a page where they can make their own clock with moving hands, too.