Download or read book Five Centuries of British Timekeeping written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Centuries of British Timekeeping written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Centuries of British Timekeeping written by British Clock and Watch Makers Association and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Centuries of British Timekeeping written by Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Five Centuries of British Timekeeping an Exhibition of Modern Clocks and Watches Together with Historical Specimens by the Old Master Clockmakers at Goldsmiths Hall Foster Lane London 3rd to 8th October 1955 written by British Clock and Watch Makers Association and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Shaping the Day written by Paul Glennie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-02-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timekeeping is an essential activity in the modern world, and we take it for granted that our lives are shaped by the hours of the day. Yet what seems so ordinary today is actually the extraordinary outcome of centuries of technical innovation and circulation of ideas about time. Shaping the Day is a pathbreaking study of the practice of timekeeping in England and Wales between 1300 and 1800. Drawing on many unique historical sources, ranging from personal diaries to housekeeping manuals, Paul Glennie and Nigel Thrift illustrate how a particular kind of common sense about time came into being, and how it developed during this period. Many remarkable figures make their appearance, ranging from the well-known, such as Edmund Halley, Samuel Pepys, and John Harrison, who solved the problem of longitude, to less familiar characters, including sailors, gamblers, and burglars. Overturning many common perceptions of the past-for example, that clock time and the industrial revolution were intimately related-this unique historical study will engage all readers interested in how 'telling the time' has come to dominate our way of life.

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee ... and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Of Time and Measurement written by Anthony John Turner and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of precision technology may seem a small, specialised subject, concerned with the development of such mundane, even banal objects as sun-dials, sand-glasses, clocks or rulers and other measuring instruments. Yet their development, as the author holds, has helped condition how we relate to the natural world and is therefore a key aspect of cultural history. For many classes of instruments there are still no basic narrative accounts of their internal evolution, and a number of these studies represent an effort towards fulfilling that need. In others, starting with an object or an object and its maker, the author asks what did it do, and then who wanted it to do it and why, penetrating into the more general social context. In time the studies range from Antiquity to the 19th century, but the emphasis is on the period from the 16th century onwards.L'histoire de la technologie de précision peut paraître comme étant un sujet spécialisé de moindre importance, se rapportant au développment d'objets quelconque, voire banals, tels les cadrans solaires, les sabliers, les horloges, les règles et autres instruments de mesure. D'après l'auteur, leur développement a cependant contribué à déterminer la façon dont nous nous rapportons au monde naturel et fait de ceux-ci l'un des aspects à la clef de notre histoire culturelle. Pour un bon nombre de catégories d'instruments, il n'existe toujours pas de relation de base concernant leur évolution interne; un effort a été accompli au travers de certaines des études contenues dans ce recueil, afin de combler cette lacune. Dans d'autres, l'auteur, débutant par un objet seul, ou bien encore un objet et son créateur, pose la question de savoir ce à quoi celui-ci servait, à qui il était destiné à servir et pourquoi, pénétrant ainsi dans un contexte social plus généralisé. Du point de vue de la chronologie, les études partent de l'Antiquité et vont jusqu'au 19e siècle, l'accent étant surtout mis à partir du 16e siècle.

Download or read book Defense Essentiality and Foreign Economic Policy Case Study The Watch Industry and Precision Skills written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Essentiality and Foreign Economic Policy written by United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks written by Eric Bruton and published by NAG Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Defense Essentiality and Foreign Economic Policy written by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers AEC request for FY57 construction budget.

Download or read book The colonisation of time written by Giordano Nanni and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonisation of Time is a highly original and long overdue examination of the ways that western-European and specifically British concepts and rituals of time were imposed on other cultures as a fundamental component of colonisation during the nineteenth century. Based on a wealth of primary sources, it explores the intimate relationship between the colonisation of time and space in two British settler-colonies (Victoria, Australia and the Cape Colony, South Africa) and its instrumental role in the exportation of Christianity, capitalism, and modernity, thus adding new depth to our understanding of imperial power and of the ways in which it was exercised and limited. All those intrigued by the concept of time will find this book of interest, for it illustrates how western-European time’s rise to a position of global dominance—from the clock to the seven-day week—is one of the most pervasive, enduring and taken-for-granted legacies of colonisation in today’s world.

Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1956-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.