Precision Pendulum Clocks

Precision Pendulum Clocks

Author: Derek Roberts

Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780764320217

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This volume chronicles the horological work carried out in France, Germany, and North America and completes the fascinating history of precision timekeeping in recent time. Over 500 beautiful color and black-and-white photographs illustrate the historical contributions of renowned clockmakers from France and Germany. America's contribution to precision timekeeping is chronicled along with recent advancements in precision pendulum timekeeping.


Vienna Regulators and Factory Clocks

Vienna Regulators and Factory Clocks

Author: Rick Ortenburger

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Since their introduction around 1780, Vienna Regulator clocks became a familiar style in homes and public spaces around Europe and the world. Produced in Vienna, Austria, the forms have moved from their early and transitional designs to serpentine, altdeutsch, Baroque, and factory-made types with one-, two-, and three-weight movements. In continuous production until the 1930s, they continue to be popular with collectors and decorators today. A value guide is included.


The End and the Beginning

The End and the Beginning

Author: Hermynia Zur Mühlen

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1906924279

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First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.


Build Your Own Talking Clock

Build Your Own Talking Clock

Author: Paul Beck

Publisher: Silver Dolphin Books

Published: 2002-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781571457295

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Readers can enter the exciting world of electronics and learn about the history and current technology of talking machines, digital sound, time machines and robots. After reading about electricity and electric circuits kids get the chance to test their knowledge and skills by building a talking clock using the components provided. Full-color illustrations. Consumable.


Repair and Restore Your 400-Day Clock

Repair and Restore Your 400-Day Clock

Author: Joseph Rabushka

Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group

Published: 2010-03-29

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 1935097784

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If you have ever sat frozen before a stopped 400-day clock wondering what to do, this book is for you. This is the most comprehensive repair manual that describes, in fully-illustrated detail, every aspect of 400-day clock repair for the novice as well as the professional. Providing detailed analysis of each part of the 400-day clock, Repair and Restore Your 400-Day Clock will teach you how it works, why it works, and how to determine when it is faulty. Two full chapters are devoted to the suspension spring alone, making this the most hands-on repair manual ever for the 400-day clock. The restoration of these unique and cherished clocks will bring an unparalleled measure of satisfaction to their owners.


Handbook of Plant Nutrition

Handbook of Plant Nutrition

Author: Allen V. Barker

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13: 1420014870

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The burgeoning demand on the world food supply, coupled with concern over the use of chemical fertilizers, has led to an accelerated interest in the practice of precision agriculture. This practice involves the careful control and monitoring of plant nutrition to maximize the rate of growth and yield of crops, as well as their nutritional value.


History without Chronology

History without Chronology

Author: Stefan Tanaka

Publisher: Lever Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1643150030

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Although numerous disciplines recognize multiple ways of conceptualizing time, Stefan Tanaka argues that scholars still overwhelmingly operate on chronological and linear Newtonian or classical time that emerged during the Enlightenment. This short, approachable book implores the humanities and humanistic social sciences to actively embrace the richness of different times that are evident in non-modern societies and have become common in several scientific fields throughout the twentieth century. Tanaka first offers a history of chronology by showing how the social structures built on clocks and calendars gained material expression. Tanaka then proposes that we can move away from this chronology by considering how contemporary scientific understandings of time might be adapted to reconceive the present and pasts. This opens up a conversation that allows for the possibility of other ways to know about and re-present pasts. A multiplicity of times will help us broaden the historical horizon by embracing the heterogeneity of our lives and world via rethinking the complex interaction between stability, repetition, and change. This history without chronology also allows for incorporating the affordances of digital media.


The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

The Scientific Imagination in South Africa

Author: William Beinart

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1108837085

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An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.


Entangled

Entangled

Author: Ian Hodder

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0470672129

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A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the maintenance and sustaining of material worlds Argues that the interrelationship of humans and things is a defining characteristic of human history and culture Offers a nuanced argument that values the physical processes of things without succumbing to materialism Discusses historical and modern examples, using evolutionary theory to show how long-standing entanglements are irreversible and increase in scale and complexity over time Integrates aspects of a diverse array of contemporary theories in archaeology and related natural and biological sciences Provides a critical review of many of the key contemporary perspectives from materiality, material culture studies and phenomenology to evolutionary theory, behavioral archaeology, cognitive archaeology, human behavioral ecology, Actor Network Theory and complexity theory