Bedfordshire Clock Watchmakers 1352 1880

Author : Chris Pickford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedfordshire Clock & Watchmakers, 1352-1880 written by Chris Pickford and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictionary is preceded by an introduction on timekeeping and the history of clock- and watchmaking in Bedfordshire. Extracts are included from a selection of documents to illustrate the sources used in compiling the dictionary. They range over advertisements, Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions' records, bills and customers' financial accounts, churchwardens' accounts, clubs, insurance records and settlement examinations. The biographical dictionary provides family details, apprenticeships, places of work and examples of the person's work, amongst much other information. Here will be found information about Thomas Tompion from Northill 'widely regarded as the greatest English clockmaker'. Appendices list the places of work in Bedfordshire and neighbouring counties of clock- and watchmakers (with a map) and of apprentices to the trade 1631-1881.

Author : Paul Glennie
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199278202
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shaping the Day written by Paul Glennie and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.

Author : Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198863918
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.

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Total Pages : 516 pages
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Download or read book The Local Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for autumn 1961- include the Standing Conference for Local History Bulletin.

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ISBN 13 : 9780906894293
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Author : British Library. Document Supply Centre
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
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Download or read book British Reports, Translations and Theses written by British Library. Document Supply Centre and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 658 pages
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Philip Temple
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
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Download or read book South and East Clerkenwell written by Philip Temple and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of London, indeed its present prosperity is rooted in its past. Today, Southern Clerkenwell, just north of the City, has become a fashionable location, home to a rising population, and many creative industries, restaurants and bars.

Author : Theodore Melvin Banta
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
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Download or read book Sayre Family written by Theodore Melvin Banta and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carl Ricketts
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ISBN 13 : 9780952853305
Total Pages : 267 pages
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Download or read book Marks and Marking of Weights and Measures of the British Isles written by Carl Ricketts and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: