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_aStruthers, Rebecca, _eauthor. _97834 |
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_aHands of time : _ba watchmaker's history / _cRebecca Struthers ; with illustrations by Craig Struthers ; and photographs by Andy Pilsbury. |
| 250 | _aFirst U.S. edition. | ||
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_aNew York, NY : _bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, _c[2023] |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2023 | |
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_axvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ; _c24 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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| 500 | _a"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK"--Title page verso. | ||
| 500 | _a"How humanity's most profound technical achievement tells the story of time itself"--Jacket. | ||
| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aA 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. | |
| 520 | _aAn 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. | ||
| 520 | _aTimepieces 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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_aClock and watch making _xHistory. |
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_aClocks and watches _xHistory. _97530 |
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_aTime _xSocial aspects. _93508 |
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_aHorology. _96387 |
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_aStruthers, Craig, _eillustrator. _97835 |
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_aPilsbury, Andy, _ephotographer. _97836 |
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