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The amateur scientist : how two distinguished amateurs set about refining the accuracy of a pendulum clock Stong, C L 1960 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 681.11.032.11
The art of the painted clock dial : a unique British folk art /M. F. Tennant. "In 1772 a different type of clock dial made of painted iron was announced to replace the traditional engraved brass dial, and a new industry was born that flourished for over a century. This book charts the rise of painted dials and the dialmakers who worked in Birmingham and elsewhere, with particular emphasis on the development of the various artistic styles that were in fashion at different times. Introductory chapters discuss the development of painted elements on brass dials and the themes on various types of painted dials. Subsequent chapters deal with the major Birmingham dialmakers as well as smaller concerns, together with the various factors and merchants who sold dials under their own brand name, but made by others. The different artistic styles found on dials made in the lesser centres of production, such as Manchester, Halifax and Scotland, are also considered. Throughout this book the different styles of artwork and graphics that distinguish the dials made by various manufacturers are discussed and illustrated. The birds, flowers or moon faces painted by the anonymous artists working for different dialmakers can often be identified with a particular manufactory. These dial styles, and especially the graphics, provide important evidence that often enables a clock to be dated to within a few years. [...]"--Provided by the publisher. • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 681.11.033.1(42)
The elements of clock and watch-work, adapted to practice. In two essays Cumming, Alexander 1766 • RARE-FOLIO • 2 copies available. 094:681.11
The U S Naval Observatory clock time reference and the performance of a sample of atomic clocks Winkler, G M R 1970 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 681.113.94
A description of two methods, by which the irregularity of the motion of a clock ... may be prevented Ellicott, John 1752? • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 681.11.032.111
Watch and clock making and repairing : dealing with the construction and repair of watches, clocks and Gazeley, W J 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11
The clock book : being a description of foreign and American antique clocks and a list of their makers Nutting, Wallace 1935 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11(73)
United States clock and watch patents 1790-1890 : the record of a century of American horology and enterprise Eckhardt, George H 1960 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11:608.3(73)
Clock and watchmaking in Colchester, England : a history of provincial clockmaking from the fifteenth Mason, Bernard 1969 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11(426.7)
Second edition; with a full account of the great clock at Westminster Denison, Edmund Beckett 1857 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 529
The Massey family : clock, watch, chronometer and nautical instrument makers : catalogue of an exhibition Treherne, Alan 1977 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 92Massey
The lure of the clock : an account of the James Arthur collection of clocks and watches at New York University Hering, D W 1932 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.113/.114
Alexander Bain's Short history of the electric clock (1852) / Edited by W. D. Hackmann. Bain, Alexander, 1973. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92Bain
The first twelve years of the English pendulum clock : or the Fromanteel family and their contemporaries Lee, Ronald A 1969 • FOLIO • 2 copies available. 92Fromanteel
Account of some experiments showing the change of rate produced in a clock by a particular case of magnetic Ellis, William 1863 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 681.11.032
The calendar : the 5000-year struggle to align the clock and the heavens - and what happened to the missing Duncan, David Ewing 1999 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 529.31
The mediaeval astronomical clock in Lund cathedral : with a survey of some similar clocks on the continent Wahlin, Theodor 1930 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 681.113.91(485)
Five centuries of British timekeeping : an exhibition of modern clocks and watches by The British Clock Worshipful Company of Clockmakers 1955 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 061.43(083.83)
Observations on the art and trade of clock and watch-making, and the causes and consequences of the numerous 1812 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 681.11
comprehensive account of the history, construction and care of the Morbier, the related Morez picture frame clock Nemrava, Steve Z 1975 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11(444.7)
Tercentenary of Christiaan Huygens' pendulum clock December 1656-December 1956 : exhibition arranged Science Museum (London) 1956. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 681.113.1
machines for the measurement and transmission of time, with an account of the earliest electrically-driven clock Langman, H R 1923 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11.031.22
Swansea Clocks : watch and clockmakers of SwaNsea and district Llanelli, llandeio, Neath Greenlaw, Joanna 1997 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11(429.7)
demonstrating the best forms which can be given to them for the purposes of machinery such as mill-work and clock-work Camus, Charles Etienne Louis 1837 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11.034.2