Modern times : timekeeping on its way to the present / Johannes Graf.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Furtwangen : Deutsches Uhrenmuseum, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Edition: [First edition]Description: 39 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 3922673198
  • 9783922673194
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS542 .G73 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000044277

31560000044277 9688

History of timekeeping in modern time (20th century) described with the examples exhibited at Deutsches Uhrenmuseumin Furtwangen Germany. Cover first electric clocks, Bain, Hipp, master/slave time sytems, railway time, timezones, quartz timekeepers, atomic clocks, radio time signals. Also serves as museum catalog for that section of the collection at DUM. Illustrated (Published concurrently in german, french and german editions, this beeing the GERMAN edition).

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