The clock museum / by Ken Sobol ; illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, [1967]Copyright date: ©1967Edition: [First edition]Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9990371792
  • 9789990371796
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: This "museum" presents man's methods and inventions for recording the passage of time--from shadow clock to an atomic powered mechanism.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Juvenile TS542 .S63 1967 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000029377

This "museum" presents man's methods and inventions for recording the passage of time--from shadow clock to an atomic powered mechanism.

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An illustrated childrens book (age 10-12) on the history of timekeeping. Book reads like a museum catalog, a guide through the various rooms of a museum, and describes very specific timepieces, but strangely no specific museum is identified, so it could be a "guide to a fictional clock museum". Very factual and detailed, written with good insight into the history of timekeeping.

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