The incredible story of how leading clockmakers, primarily of England, struggled to control accurate timekeeping for over 300 years. A thorough yet concise text is accompanied by nearly 1,000 photographs of clocks which demonstrate each fascinating development. Georgian, Regency, and Victorian advances are shown to have contributed to the eventual success of accurately measuring time, that is so crucial to the success of todays highly integrated society.
Chapters include:
- Finding and Keeping Time: From Stars to Pendulum
- The Birth of Accurate Timekeeping: The Royal Observatory
- Solar, Mean Solar and the Equation of Time, Sidereal, Local and Greenwich Mean Time
- Factors Affecting the Isochronicity of a Pendulum
- Compensated Pendulums
- Escapements
- Electric Clocks
- Pendulum Clock Precision 1750 - 1960
- Thomas Tompion and George Graham, and
- John Harrison
Price: $54.75
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