English Clocks For The Eastern Markets
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English Clocks For The Eastern Markets
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Author : Ian White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
English Clocks For The Eastern Markets written by Ian White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Clock and watch makers categories.
The Rise And Decline Of England S Watchmaking Industry 1550 1930
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Author : Alun C. Davies
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04-11
The Rise And Decline Of England S Watchmaking Industry 1550 1930 written by Alun C. Davies and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-11 with History categories.
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
Scientific Instruments Between East And West
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2019-09-02
Scientific Instruments Between East And West written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-02 with Science categories.
Scientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds.
European Clocks And Watches In The Near East
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Author : Kurz
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1975-06
European Clocks And Watches In The Near East written by Kurz and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975-06 with History categories.
The Lighthouse And The Observatory
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Author : Daniel A. Stolz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-11
The Lighthouse And The Observatory written by Daniel A. Stolz and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-11 with History categories.
This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.
Early English Clocks
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Author : Percy G. Dawson
language : en
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Release Date : 1982
Early English Clocks written by Percy G. Dawson and has been published by ACC Distribution this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Clocks and watches categories.
The story of English clocks from their beginnings to the first decade of the eithteenth century written by three acknowledged experts.
A General History Of Horology
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Author : Turner
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-02
A General History Of Horology written by Turner and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-02 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.
European Clocks And Watches In The Near East
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Author : Otto Kurz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
European Clocks And Watches In The Near East written by Otto Kurz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
Time In The History Of Art
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Author : Dan Karlholm
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Time In The History Of Art written by Dan Karlholm and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with Art categories.
Addressed to students of the image—both art historians and students of visual studies—this book investigates the history and nature of time in a variety of different environments and media as well as the temporal potential of objects. Essays will analyze such topics as the disparities of power that privilege certain forms of temporality above others, the nature of temporal duration in different cultures, the time of materials, the creation of pictorial narrative, and the recognition of anachrony as a form of historical interpretation.
The Global Transformation Of Time
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Author : Vanessa Ogle
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2015-10-12
The Global Transformation Of Time written by Vanessa Ogle and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-12 with History categories.
As new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously minor discrepancies in local time-telling became a global problem. Vanessa Ogle’s chronicle of the struggle to standardize clock times and calendars from 1870 to 1950 highlights the many hurdles that proponents of uniformity faced in establishing international standards. Time played a foundational role in nineteenth-century globalization. Growing interconnectedness prompted contemporaries to reflect on the annihilation of space and distance and to develop a global consciousness. Time—historical, evolutionary, religious, social, and legal—provided a basis for comparing the world’s nations and societies, and it established hierarchies that separated “advanced” from “backward” peoples in an age when such distinctions underwrote European imperialism. Debates and disagreements on the varieties of time drew in a wide array of observers: German government officials, British social reformers, colonial administrators, Indian nationalists, Arab reformers, Muslim scholars, and League of Nations bureaucrats. Such exchanges often heightened national and regional disparities. The standardization of clock times therefore remained incomplete as late as the 1940s, and the sought-after unification of calendars never came to pass. The Global Transformation of Time reveals how globalization was less a relentlessly homogenizing force than a slow and uneven process of adoption and adaptation that often accentuated national differences.