The clock / Trent Duffy ; foldout illustrations by Toby Welles.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Turning point inventionsPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Edition: [First edition]Description: 80 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0689828144
  • 9780689828140
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The beginnings of time -- The invention of the mechanical clock -- John Harrison and the chronometric clock -- Clocks and the Industrial Revolution -- The future of time.
Summary: A history of time measurement, including a short biography of John Harrison, inventor of the chronometric clock, and the effect of the clock on the Industrial Revolution.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Juvenile TS542.5 .D84 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000029054

Includes bibliographical references (page 78) and index.

The beginnings of time -- The invention of the mechanical clock -- John Harrison and the chronometric clock -- Clocks and the Industrial Revolution -- The future of time.

A history of time measurement, including a short biography of John Harrison, inventor of the chronometric clock, and the effect of the clock on the Industrial Revolution.

Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.6 2.0 64446.

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Harrision History of Timekeeping young adults age 12-16

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