Romance and history of time : a series of world-wide adventures on the road from long ago to now /
Bailey, Roy Rutherford,
Romance and history of time : a series of world-wide adventures on the road from long ago to now / by Roy Rutherford Bailey. - 2 volumes [63; 59] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
"Paintings of Hugh Rankin and Harold DeLay from the notable magazine series published under the same title, Through the ages with Father Time"--Page [3].
Vol. I. Prologue: The voice of the watch -- Before Adam -- The cave-man's timepiece -- The sun-dial -- The water clock -- The time-candle -- The great clock of Rouen -- The table clock -- The first watch -- The Nuremberg egg -- The noonday gun -- Galileo's pendulum -- The first hair-spring -- Jewels -- The time-ball -- Vol. II. The time-ball (cont'd) -- The last raid -- The keyless watch -- The chronometer -- You never can tell -- The pedometer watch -- The master -- Benjamin the builder -- Love and time -- The watch of the future -- L'Envoi -- From Father Time's notebook.
Clocks and watches--History--Juvenile literature.
Time--Juvenile literature.
Clocks and watches.
Time.
History Global
History.
Juvenile works.
Romance and history of time : a series of world-wide adventures on the road from long ago to now / by Roy Rutherford Bailey. - 2 volumes [63; 59] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
"Paintings of Hugh Rankin and Harold DeLay from the notable magazine series published under the same title, Through the ages with Father Time"--Page [3].
Vol. I. Prologue: The voice of the watch -- Before Adam -- The cave-man's timepiece -- The sun-dial -- The water clock -- The time-candle -- The great clock of Rouen -- The table clock -- The first watch -- The Nuremberg egg -- The noonday gun -- Galileo's pendulum -- The first hair-spring -- Jewels -- The time-ball -- Vol. II. The time-ball (cont'd) -- The last raid -- The keyless watch -- The chronometer -- You never can tell -- The pedometer watch -- The master -- Benjamin the builder -- Love and time -- The watch of the future -- L'Envoi -- From Father Time's notebook.
Clocks and watches--History--Juvenile literature.
Time--Juvenile literature.
Clocks and watches.
Time.
History Global
History.
Juvenile works.