Hands of Time
A Watchmaker's History
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch.
Contents:
A 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.
Subjects:
Clock and watch making -- History.
Clocks and watches -- History.
Time -- Social aspects.
Horology.
Clock and watch making -- History.
Clocks and watches -- History.
Time -- Social aspects.
Horology.
ISBN:
9780063048706
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TECH Time Str | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK."--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index.