Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / Jonathan Betts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, 2006Edition: [1st edition]Description: xvi, 464 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 23 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • cartographic image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198568029
  • 9780198568025
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Childhood 1890-1905 -- Navy training 1906-1913 -- The war, a breakdown, and marriage 1914-1920 -- John Harrison and the marine chronometer -- Research and the first restorations 1920-1922 -- The magnum opus 1921-1923 -- Horology : the obsession -- H2 is restored 1923-1925 -- The sette of odd volumes -- Separation 1925-1927 -- Oddities and enigmas 1928-1929 -- The case for the sea serpent 1930 -- The RAS regulator 1927-1929 -- H3 is completed 1929-1931 -- H1 the full restoration 1931-1933 -- The Loch Ness monster 1933-1934 -- The Harrison timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935 -- Professor Stewart, the BBC, and tennis 1936 -- Many projects 1936-1937 -- Leaving downside, leaving London 1937-1939 -- Upper Hurdcott and the brains trust 1940-1945 -- Canterbury and a gold medal 1945-1948.
Summary: Biography of Rupert T. Gould, who during the 1920s and 1930s restored the timekeepers constructed by John Harrison (1693-1776).
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS544.8.G68 B48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000052650

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-400) and index.

Childhood 1890-1905 -- Navy training 1906-1913 -- The war, a breakdown, and marriage 1914-1920 -- John Harrison and the marine chronometer -- Research and the first restorations 1920-1922 -- The magnum opus 1921-1923 -- Horology : the obsession -- H2 is restored 1923-1925 -- The sette of odd volumes -- Separation 1925-1927 -- Oddities and enigmas 1928-1929 -- The case for the sea serpent 1930 -- The RAS regulator 1927-1929 -- H3 is completed 1929-1931 -- H1 the full restoration 1931-1933 -- The Loch Ness monster 1933-1934 -- The Harrison timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935 -- Professor Stewart, the BBC, and tennis 1936 -- Many projects 1936-1937 -- Leaving downside, leaving London 1937-1939 -- Upper Hurdcott and the brains trust 1940-1945 -- Canterbury and a gold medal 1945-1948.

Biography of Rupert T. Gould, who during the 1920s and 1930s restored the timekeepers constructed by John Harrison (1693-1776).

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The definitive biography of Rupert Gould the restorer of the Harrison Longitude clocks and expert on unexplainable facts and sea serpents, many illustrations, bibliography, index

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