It's about time / Paul M. Chamberlain.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Richard R. Smith, 1941.Description: xvi pages, 1 leaf, 19-490 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including portraits), diagrams ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
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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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