Precision pendulum clocks : the quest for accurate timekeeping / Derek Roberts ; major contributors, Jonathan Betts [and others].

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Schiffer book for collectorsPublisher: Atglen, PA : Schiffer Pub., 2003Edition: [1st edition]Description: 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0764316362
  • 9780764316364
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
I: Finding and keeping time: from stars to pendulum -- II: The birth of accurate timekeeping: the Royal Observatory -- III: Solar, mean solar and the equation of time, sidereal, local, and Greenwich mean time -- IV: Factors affecting the isochronicity of a pendulum -- V: Compensated pendulums -- VI: Escapements -- VII: Electric clocks -- VIII: Pendulum clock precision, 1750-1960 -- IX: Thomas Tompion and George Graham -- X: John Harrison -- XI: John Shelton, Thomas Mudge and William Dutton -- XII: John Ellicott and Alexander Cumming -- XIII: John Arnold, John Roger Arnold, and Arnold and Dent -- XIV: The regulators of Thomas Earnshaw and George Margetts -- XV: The Vulliamys -- XVI: The spring pallet: escapements of Hardy and Reid -- XVII: James Ferguson, Benjamin Martin, Henry Ward, Joseph Banister, William Congreve, William George Schoof, and Thomas Cole -- XVIII: Robert Molyneux, the Condlif's, Thomas lLeyland, Henry Walsh, and Thomas Cooke -- XIX:The Frodshams -- XX: E.J. Dent and his successors, including the work of Brock -- XI: The Georgian and Regency period -- XXII: Victorian regulators, including the gravity escapement -- XXIII: Wall and table regulators.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS542 .R63 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000047411

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

I: Finding and keeping time: from stars to pendulum -- II: The birth of accurate timekeeping: the Royal Observatory -- III: Solar, mean solar and the equation of time, sidereal, local, and Greenwich mean time -- IV: Factors affecting the isochronicity of a pendulum -- V: Compensated pendulums -- VI: Escapements -- VII: Electric clocks -- VIII: Pendulum clock precision, 1750-1960 -- IX: Thomas Tompion and George Graham -- X: John Harrison -- XI: John Shelton, Thomas Mudge and William Dutton -- XII: John Ellicott and Alexander Cumming -- XIII: John Arnold, John Roger Arnold, and Arnold and Dent -- XIV: The regulators of Thomas Earnshaw and George Margetts -- XV: The Vulliamys -- XVI: The spring pallet: escapements of Hardy and Reid -- XVII: James Ferguson, Benjamin Martin, Henry Ward, Joseph Banister, William Congreve, William George Schoof, and Thomas Cole -- XVIII: Robert Molyneux, the Condlif's, Thomas lLeyland, Henry Walsh, and Thomas Cooke -- XIX:The Frodshams -- XX: E.J. Dent and his successors, including the work of Brock -- XI: The Georgian and Regency period -- XXII: Victorian regulators, including the gravity escapement -- XXIII: Wall and table regulators.

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Comprehensive, scholarly monograph, richly illustrated on history of precision timekeeping technology.Schiffer Publishing, Atglen PA, published 2003 to 2004, each volume richly illustrated (mostly in color, 24x31 cm, Glossary, and Index in each book, and numerous bibliographic references in each chapter. Hardcover, dustjacket. Purchase for circa 0 each, e.g. at amazon.com. Lending copies of all

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