The clock and how it changed the world / Michael Pollard.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History and inventionPublisher: New York : Facts on File, 1995Description: 46 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816031428
  • 9780816031429
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Partial contents:
The problems of navigation -- Standardizing longitude and latitude -- Chronometers -- The expansion trade -- Empire building -- The Industrial Revolution -- Railways -- Mass-production -- Science -- Organizing time -- Exploration -- Time zones -- Communications -- Air travel.
Summary: Describes the devices invented for telling time.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Juvenile TS542.5 .P65 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000029088

Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.

The problems of navigation -- Standardizing longitude and latitude -- Chronometers -- The expansion trade -- Empire building -- The Industrial Revolution -- Railways -- Mass-production -- Science -- Organizing time -- Exploration -- Time zones -- Communications -- Air travel.

Describes the devices invented for telling time.

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Impact of timekeepers on history - for juveniles age 10-14

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