The proletarian watch / Albin Schaeder.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Series: Schaeder, Albin, Wonderful timepieces ; 2.Publisher: Umeå : Albin Schaeder, [2007]Edition: [1st edition]Description: 215 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789163196089
  • 9163196085
Uniform titles:
  • Proletäruret. Engelska
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.P63 S3313 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000047361

"A tribute to Georges Frederic Roskopf and his idea of producing a reliable watch at a cheap price which the poor of the 1860's could afford."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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English edition of the original book in Swedish: Proletäruret, the biography of Geroges Frederic Roskopf (1813 to 1889) who around 1866 invented a simplified cheap watch for the masses, the precusror to the later sucsessfull USA Dollar watch. Illustrated, Patent summary, Index

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