Download or read book Six Quaker Clockmakers written by Edward E. Chandlee and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sketches of the life and work of Abel Cottey, Benjamin Chandlee, Benjamin Chandlee, Jr., Goldsmith Chandlee, Ellis Chandlee, and Isaac Chandlee.
Download or read book Dixie Clockmakers written by James Gibbs and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1979-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magnificent artistry and craftmanship of eighteenth and nineteenth century clockmakers in the South has been recorded in this lavishly illustrated volume. Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, the 192-page volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world's finest timepieces. Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some 60 photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking. The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers, the volume also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.
Download or read book The Quaker Clockmakers of North Oxfordshire written by Tim Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quaker Clockmakers of North Oxfordshire written by Cyril Frederik Cherrington Beeson and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loose leaves in folder.
Download or read book American Backcountry Tall Clock written by Walt H. Sirene and published by Walt H. Sirene. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This free download is a fascinating and wide ranging study that offers many insights into American Tall Case Clock making in the Backcountry of the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, in the late 18th Century. This story informs those wanting to know more about antique tall case clocks (also known as longcase clocks, Grandfather clocks, floor clocks); Backcountry Early American furniture; how time was determined; culture and commerce; whether as a student, educator, casual collector or curious clock owner. Photographs in the body and addendum add value for inquisitive researchers. Each page - Splendid photographs and illustrations enhanced by brief narratives in laymen terms provide fascinating information about a group of five known tall clocks that were made in the Virginia Backcountry. The clocks genealogy is traced back to: Rome and Greece for the furniture case; Galileo for the pendulum; and England for the painted dial. Tap or click on a Hyperlink to go to online videos and references for further understanding about the Backcountry artisans and settlers, clock making, period furniture, painted dials, how a clock and pendulum works, clock setup and trouble shooting. Note: Not all Operating Systems recognize hyperlinks after Google processing deactivates them. In that case, search terms are provided for internet search. Enjoy the story! Recommended video links - Palladio, Chippendale, Galileo, How the escapement works, Four parts of a clock, and "The Clock that Changed the World."
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1944 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Books, Group 1, Nos. 1-12 (1943)
Download or read book Fortune s Frenzy written by Eilene Lyon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible. As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry’s creditors. When Henry’s sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their distressed families? Fortune’s Frenzy reveals the plight of miners who borrowed at extortionate rates to get to California, and explores the dangerous and deadly sea routes to the west coast that killed roughly 10 percent of those who risked the journey. Alternating between the miners’ trials and terrors, and the challenges for the wives, children, and mothers left behind, Fortune’s Frenzy delves into the country’s pressing social, economic, and nationalist issues in the pre-Civil War decades. The theme is age-old, and still relevant: desperate people falling for get-rich-quick schemes. They fail to consider the sacrifices they will have to make and the dismal odds of their success.
Download or read book Mark Twain Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers written by Silvio A. Bedini and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within recent years fairly exhaustive studies have been made on many aspects on American Science and Technology. To make a comprehensive study of American scientific instruments and instrument makers in the American Colonies is no simple matter, partly because of an indifference to the subject in the past, and partly because of the great volume of sources that must be sifted to accomplish it.
Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol 1 905p Vol 2 961p.
Download or read book Goldsmith Chandlee Sundial Maker Setting Time 1790 written by Walt H. Sirene and published by Walt H. Sirene. This book was released on 2020-07-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This standalone document is taken from the author’s comprehensive horological study, American Backcountry Tall Clock; it is a collection of "time setting" information and addendum's in one document. Photographs and charts along with explanatory notes tell about one aspect of a brilliant craftsman’s work while living in the backcountry of early America. Read on to learn about Noon Marks, Sundials, and how they were used to set time before smart phones, dial phone time service, and bells pealing the hour from church and town hall belfries. Chandlee’s customers will surprise you, including an important Founding Father, Chief Justice John Marshall. The focus is determining the correct time. This at a period when only a few owned clocks. It was before the advent of time zones, and when people were likely buying their first timepiece. This ePublication entertains and informs through pictures, graphics and hyperlinks to enhance understanding and learning; supplemented with the spare use of words. Hyperlinks lead to educational and enjoyable information on the internet. Researchers will profit from photographs and unique documents.
Download or read book The New England Historical and Genealogical Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Download or read book Infortunate written by Susan E. Klepp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County Pennsylvania written by Margaret Berwind Schiffer and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a 476-page survey of furniture craftsmen working in Chester County, Pennsylvania from its founding in 1682 to 1850 when there was a recognized decline in the handicraft tradition. The settlers included predominently English Quakers for the first half century, after which numbers of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Welsh Baptists, Irish Quakers, and Germans became equally important and, later, had major influence in the county. The hand made furniture from the county has certain distinguishing features which are explained in the well-researched text, and illustrated in 175 photographs. Hundreds of cabinetmakers and other craftsmen are profiled in detail from their contemporary public records. The work is an important reference for furniture and social historians alike.
Download or read book Library Catalog written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old Buildings Gardens and Furniture in Tidewater Maryland written by Henry Chandlee Forman and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1967 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
