Hands of time : a watchmaker's history / Rebecca Struthers ; with illustrations by Craig Struthers ; and photographs by Andy Pilsbury.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063048706
  • 0063048701
Subject(s):
Contents:
A backward-facing foreword -- Facing the sun -- Ingenious devices -- Tempus fugit -- The Golden Age -- Forging time -- Revolution time -- Working to the clock -- The watch of action -- Accelerated time -- Man and machine -- Eleventh hour -- How to repair a watch.
Summary: An award-winning watchmaker chronicles the invention of time and human society through the centuries-long story of one of mankind's most profound technological achievements: the watch.Summary: Timepieces have accompanied human society from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest; the ice of the Arctic to the surface of the moon. Struthers provides a history of watchmaking, describing our earliest attempts at timekeeping and the ways in which it has shaped our attitudes to work, leisure, trade, politic, exploration, and mortality. -- Adapted from jacket.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS 542 .S77 2023b (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000009312

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK"--Title page verso.

"How humanity's most profound technical achievement tells the story of time itself"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.

A backward-facing foreword -- Facing the sun -- Ingenious devices -- Tempus fugit -- The Golden Age -- Forging time -- Revolution time -- Working to the clock -- The watch of action -- Accelerated time -- Man and machine -- Eleventh hour -- How to repair a watch.

An award-winning watchmaker chronicles the invention of time and human society through the centuries-long story of one of mankind's most profound technological achievements: the watch.

Timepieces have accompanied human society from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest; the ice of the Arctic to the surface of the moon. Struthers provides a history of watchmaking, describing our earliest attempts at timekeeping and the ways in which it has shaped our attitudes to work, leisure, trade, politic, exploration, and mortality. -- Adapted from jacket.

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