It's about time / Paul M. Chamberlain.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Richard R. Smith, 1941.Description: xvi pages, 1 leaf, 19-490 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits), diagrams ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: It's about time.
Contents:
pt. I. Escapements.--pt. II. Experiments and unusual time-pieces.--pt. III. Famous watchmakers.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Rare TS545 .C43 1941 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000009874
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Rare TS545 .C43 1941 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000039004

Compiled after the author's death from articles published during the preceding twenty-five or more years. cf. Preface, signed: Margaret Graham Chamberlain.

"Development of the escapement: bibliography": pages 198. "Bibliographical sources": pages 473-475. Includes index.

pt. I. Escapements.--pt. II. Experiments and unusual time-pieces.--pt. III. Famous watchmakers.

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First edition (New York) of the well known scholarly text. One of the first indepth histories of timekeeping. Published posthumously With extensive index, and excellent and copious illustrations.

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