John Harrison's contrivance : [the scientific basis and design of his ultimate pendulum clock] / Stuart Harrison.
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford, Suffolk, UK : Fionchra Press, [2010].Description: x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781844267736
- 1844267733
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room | QA862.P4 H37 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31560000071023 |
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Detailed description of the clock and its history . Clock was the last started by Harrision but not really completed,stayed in family. In the posession of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1836/37, which 'got it running". Restored by Gould in 1927. 1972-1980 at National Maritime Museum, since 1980 at Fleamstead House, Greenwich Observatory. Book contains dimensioned photographs and drawings allowing the construction of a replica, as well as largely unstructured tidbits of information relating to Harrisions work and this clock. Bibliography. Numerous illustrations.
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