The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang

Author : Sue Newman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445625695
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang written by Sue Newman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang offers a fascinating insight into the origin of clocks and watches and what this industry meant to the

Author : Serena Dyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501349635
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain written by Serena Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.

Author : Bernard Hall
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1805146106
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Dr Tancred from Cork written by Bernard Hall and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I grew up hearing tales of a great-great grandfather, a Catholic man of the cloth from Cork who eloped with a nun. As a child I found ancestors dead-boring, living relations bad enough.

Author : Anthony Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019260936X
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Anthony Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 738 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 fundamental, new and original research.

Author : Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019151117X
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marine Chronometers at Greenwich written by Jonathan Betts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marine Chronometers at Greenwich is the fifth, and largest, of the distinguished series of catalogues of instruments in the collections of the National Maritime Museum. Housed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich — the 'home of time' and the Prime Meridian of the world — this extraordinary collection, which includes the celebrated marine timekeepers by John Harrison (1693-1776), is generally considered to be the finest of its kind in existence. The book is however much more than just a catalogue, and includes an accessible and engaging history of the chronometer, revealing why these instruments were important in our scientific and cultural history, and explaining, in simple terms, how they worked and were used. A comprehensive Glossary and Bibliography are included to ensure any technicalities are explained and that the reader has suggestions for useful 'further reading'. Over 480 photographs and illustrations, including many fine macro-photographs and line drawings, illustrate the 'jewel-like' beauty of the chronometer's construction and explain the function and subtleties of its mechanism. A chapter on 'How the Chronometer was Made', describes the fine sub-division of labour used to create these special machines, from bare metal, right up to delivery on board ship, and brief biographies of the makers tell the human story behind this important nineteenth-century industry. Another chapter, 'The Evolution of the Chronometer', aimed at collectors, historians and curators, provides clearly structured information on assessing and dating the chronometer, something many find difficult. And, for the dedicated specialist, there is extensive tabulated data on the technical structure of this important collection, a unique resource for future research.

Author : Cliff Gilley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418495409
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My 38 Years in the Chain Gang written by Cliff Gilley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : Douglas Mawson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409224643
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 written by Douglas Mawson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-08 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mawson turned down an invitation to join Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition in 1910; Australian geologist Griffith Taylor went instead. Dawson chose to lead his own expedition, the Australian Antarctic Expedition, to King George V Land and Adelie Land, the sector of the Antarctic continent immediately south of Australia, which at the time was almost entirely unexplored. The objectives were to carry out geographical exploration and scientific studies, including visiting the South Magnetic Pole.

Author : Hilary Cotter
Publisher : Apress
ISBN 13 : 143021595X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 written by Hilary Cotter and published by Apress. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–language search is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demand for human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of its built–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form of integrated full–text search (iFTS). iFTS uses text–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content. Whether you want to set up an enterprise–wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural–language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 iFTS: Introducing powerful iFTS features in SQL Server, such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists Showing you how to optimize full–text query performance through features like full–text indexes and iFilters Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of iFTS in your daily projects

Author : Gerald R. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780978122010
Total Pages : pages
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