Download or read book Making Clocks written by Stan Bray and published by Workshop Practice. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stan Bray introduces the fascinating world of horology to the complete beginner. This book explains the terminology of the clockmaker and provides general details of clock construction including layout of wheels and escarpments, a number of the latter being described. Making of wheels, pinions, escarpments, plates, pendulums, weights, cases, hands and faces is described. The necessary tools and equipment are described with details of how to make specialized items and choice of most suitable materials for their construction.
Download or read book Make Your Own Working Paper Clock written by James Smith Rudolph and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1983-09-14 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut this book into 160 pieces, glue them together, and have a paper clock operated by weights that keeps perfect time and can be rewound and regulated.
Download or read book How to Build 35 Great Clocks written by Joseph Daniele and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the four basic types of clocks---plaque, shelf, wall, and tall case clocks. Plans, drawings, and photos included.
Download or read book Making Wooden Gear Clocks written by Editors of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a piece of wood move is fun, but making it tell time is truly amazing! Inside this book, you’ll find ingenious plans for creating awesome wooden machines that actually move and keep time. These working wooden wonders might just be the most enjoyable projects you ever build in your shop. Wooden gear clocks are not only fascinating to watch, but can be surprisingly accurate timepieces. Just don’t expect atomic precision—after all, they’re modeled on 17th-century technology! But as you build these scroll saw clocks you’ll use all of the basic principles that still govern mechanical clocks today. Six well-illustrated step-by-step scroll saw projects are arranged by skill level from beginner to advanced, and full-sized scroll saw patterns are attached to the book in a handy pouch. With a little perseverance, you’ll soon be ticking along happily with your own wooden clockworks. All you have to do is build them, wind them up, and let them run—no batteries required.
Download or read book Building an American Clock Movement written by Steven G. Conover and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Complete Guide to Making Wooden Clocks 3rd Edition written by John A. Nelson and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plans for making 37 traditional, Shaker and contemporary clocks. Designs include grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, and desk clocks. Step-by-step photo tutorial for making a Shaker coffin-style clock. Projects include a color photo of the finished clock, measured drawings, and cut lists. Includes chapters on the history of clock making, clock components, and clock making basics.
Download or read book About Time written by David Rooney and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.
Download or read book A Rudimentary Treatise on Clock and Watch Making written by Edmund Beckett Denison and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1850 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rudimentary treatise on clock and watch making: with a chapter on church clocks; and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster Clock.
Download or read book Make Time for Clocks written by Chris Wallace and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty timely projects will have crafters assembling clocks in no time at all! From whimsical to sophisticated, there's a clock project for every decor: lodge/rustic; English cottage; shabby chic; sporty; classic; kids; contemporary; retro; masculine; folk art; funky; artsy; French country; country; and ethnic. Sixteen well known designers contributed projects, including Cheryl Ball, Barbara McGuire, Vivian Perrits, Lisa Sheppard, and Carolyn Stearns. Crafters of all skill levels will feel comfortable making these clocks when following these clear and detailed instructions on the basic techniques of clock making, preparing and finishing wood products, and painting. Projects use a variety of techniques: stitching, beading, painting, decoupage, stamping, stenciling, wood burning, leather crafting, and faux finishing, and a variety of materials: polymer clay, fabric, felt, beads, and wire.
Download or read book Designing and Building a Grandfather Clock written by Gary Williams and published by A S Barnes & Company. This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woodworker's manual demonstrates the building of a grandfather clock, from workshop preparation to purchase of the mechanisms and interior pieces to the design and joinery of the finished product
Download or read book Fast Fun Easy Creative Fabric Clocks written by Lynn Koolish and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's easy to forget that these fun projects are functional as well as decorative. 6 different projects plus inspiration from guest artists will have you designing your own in a matter of minutes! A resource list is included for clock materials, movements, and embellishments.
Download or read book Making Wooden Clock Cases written by Tim Ashby and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete plans and measured drawings to make 23 clock cases with designs ranging from the classic long case to bracket clocks, wall-hung and mantle shelf pieces, and traditional examples such as the Vienna regulator and the balloon and lancet clocks.
Download or read book Lectures on Church building with Some Practical Remarks on Bells and Clocks written by Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marking Modern Times written by Alexis McCrossen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.
Download or read book The 13 Clocks written by James Thurber and published by NYRB Kids. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a cold, gloomy castle where all the clocks have stopped, a wicked Duke amuses himself by finding new and fiendish ways of rejecting the suitors for his niece, the good and beautiful Princess Saralinda.
Download or read book Making Time written by Yulia Frumer and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Variable hours in a changing society -- Towers, pillows, and graphs: variation in clock design -- Astronomical time measurement and changing conceptions of time -- Geodesy, cartography, and time measurement -- Navigation and global time -- Time measurement on the ground in Kaga domain -- Clock-makers at the crossroads -- Western time and the rhetoric of enlightenment
Download or read book Johann Ludwig Eberhardt and His Salem Clocks written by Frank P. Albright and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eberhardt (1758-1839) was master clockmaker in Salem for more than thirty-eight years. Albright attributes more than thirty clocks to Eberhardt, building his evidence by a diligent reading of the Moravian records and by a careful cataloging of the characteristics of each clock. He reconstructs Eberhardt's methods of clockmaking in precise detail from the inventories and the purchase invoices of equipment and materials, and he attempts to identify the cabinetmaker in each case. Originally published in 1978. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
