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008			700415s1968 enkac 000 0 eng
010			_a 70365991
015			_aGB6824162 _2bnb
016	7		_a000509143 _2Uk
016	7		_a010317549 _2Uk
016	7		_a010898903 _2Uk
019			_a80949804 _a751308796 _a869807354 _a948016196 _a1008207817 _a1054231331
035			_a(OCoLC)37208
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060		4	_aNK 7486 B77 1968
080			_a739.3
100	1		_aBruton, Eric, _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80037730 _97405
245	1	0	_aClocks & watches / _cEric Bruton.
264		1	_aFeltham : _bHamlyn, _c1968.
300			_apages 5-140 : _billustrations (some color), portraits ; _c29 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIllustrations on lining papers.
505	0		_aAuthor's preface -- The first timekeepers -- Birth of the mechanical clock -- Invention of the spring -- The story of the watch -- Clocks grow up -- Navigating by time -- Clocks and watches in North America -- Striving after accuracy -- Users and uses.
520			_aOne of man's earliest scientific achievements was the measurement of time by an instrument -- from the shadow of a tall palm tree or stone obelisk timekeeping has evolved thorugh sundials, water clocks, sand glasses and fire clocks to the quartz and atomic clocks which make space travel possible today. Carriage, grandfather, shelf, bracket -- these are some of the clocks described. Watches, which evolved from table clocks and were first worn around the neck, are discussed and many fine, elaborate, jewelled examples are illustrated. The author, Eric Bruton, has traced the eventful history of this progress, and discusses many interesting side developments: that clocks and watches were the first technical products to be traded by Europe with the East; that the mastery of timekeeping at sea in the 18th and 19h centuries brought accurate navigation and the charting of the world's coastlines. There is a chapter devoted to clocks and watches in North America. Certain early American clockmakers gained great eminence, and the finest development of the shelf clock was a purely American design. The continual striving for accuracy has taxed the clockmakers' ingenuity through the centuries, as is clearly shown in the drawing of escapements from the 13th to 19th century. Clocks and Watches is liberally illustrated with over two hundred pictures, many in full colour. They portray clocks and watches both weird and wonderful, including an uncommon one of Bilston Boxes -- many of which were sham watches of varying degrees of realism.
562			_331560000030375 _b1283
590			_aCoffee table history of timekeepers 1968
650		0	_aClocks and watches _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101137 _97530
650		0	_aHobbies. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061308 _96954
650		7	_aClocks and watches. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00864521 _96879
653			_aClocks and watches
653		2	_aAnthology
653		0	_aTimekeeper (general)
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
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