Time And Timekeepers
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Timekeepers
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Author : Simon Garfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-09-15
Timekeepers written by Simon Garfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-15 with categories.
Not so long ago we timed our lives by the movement of the sun. These days our time arrives atomically and insistently, and our lives are propelled by the notion that we will never have enough of the one thing we crave the most. How have we come to be dominated by something so arbitrary?The compelling stories in this book explore our obsessions with time. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A moment of war is frozen forever. The timetable arrives by steam train. A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister becomes stuck in the same four minutes forever. A British watchmaker competes with mighty Switzerland. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.Timekeepers is a vivid exploration of the ways we have perceived, contained and saved time over the last 250 years, narrated in the highly inventive and entertaining style that bestselling author Simon Garfield is fast making his own. As managing time becomes the greatest challenge we face in our lives, this multi-layered history helps us tackle it in a sparkling new light.
Time Timekeepers
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Author : Willis Isbister Milham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1923
Time Timekeepers written by Willis Isbister Milham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with Clocks and watches categories.
On Time
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Author : Kenneth Mondschein
language : en
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
On Time written by Kenneth Mondschein and has been published by Johns Hopkins University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
An approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity. Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. From the astronomical timekeeping of the ancient world to the tower clocks of the Middle Ages to the seagoing chronometer, the quartz watch, and the atomic clock, greater precision and accuracy have had profound effects on human society—which, in turn, has driven the quest for further precision and accuracy. This quest toward automation—which gave rise to the Gregorian calendar, the factory clock, and even the near-disastrous Y2K bug—has led to profound social repercussions and driven the creation of the modern scientific mindset. Surveying the evolution of the clock from prehistory to the twenty-first century, Mondschein explains how both the technology and the philosophy behind Western timekeeping regimes came to take over the entire world. On Time is a story of thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and of the thousand decisions that continue to shape our daily lives.
Time And Timekeepers
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Author : Adam Thomson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Time And Timekeepers written by Adam Thomson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Clocks and watches categories.
Time Timekeepers
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Author : Willis Isbister Milham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Time Timekeepers written by Willis Isbister Milham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Clocks and watches categories.
Time And Timekeepers
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Author : Adam Thomson
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Time And Timekeepers written by Adam Thomson and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... duced into apartments, but even then had the mechanicians been told that time-keepers as small as our watches could be made to go with accuracy, they would have regarded the notion as visionary. WATCHES INVENTED. Watch said to have belonged to Henry VIII.--To Anna Boleyn--Watch presented to Charles V.--Ornamental Watches of the 16th Century--Sir William Howard's Watch. Towards the middle of the sixteenth century springs were applied as the maintaining power to time-pieces, thus enabling them to be made small and portable, but these pieces, (now called watches) were imperfect machines, going with even less precision than an old clock; they had only an hour hand, and most of them required winding twice a day. Derham describes a watch said to have belonged to Henry VIII., and states moreover that it required winding but once a week; Anna Boleyn possessed another. These must have dated anterior to 1549; and in a tract printed at Antwerp as early as 1530, Gemma Frisius advises the use of small clocks or watches (then as he says lately invented) for the purpose of discovering the longitude at sea; yet the greater number of foreign writers make it appear that the first watch was presented E in 1550 to the Emperor Charles V. whose taste for the art was adduced by Voltaire as a proof of his insanity. It is astonishing that the philosopher could find nothing in the career of this ambitions man more indicative of the malady, which certainly is not shewn in the following well-known anecdote: While attentively inspecting his time-keepers, they were overthrown by a monk entering abruptly, an accident difficult at that time to be remedied, yet the Emperor merely remarked: " I have been labouring some time without being able to make those clocks go...
Time And Timekeepers
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Author : Willis Ibister Milham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
Time And Timekeepers written by Willis Ibister Milham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Clocks and watches categories.
The Time Keeper
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Author : Kevin E. Cropp
language : en
Publisher: Copper Press
Release Date : 2006-02
The Time Keeper written by Kevin E. Cropp and has been published by Copper Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-02 with Fiction categories.
Sixteen miles downstream from the birthplace of George Washington where the Shenandoah River comes out of the Blue Ridge carrying sycamore leaves and acorns came a gem that shone brighter than most. That gem was Linda Wails, but as providence would have it her life took as many steep drops and winding turns as did that river. The death of her father, a move to a godforsaken place with so few trees and so much sand, a bout with cancer, and an unrelenting relationship with her son Corey, left Linda no choice but to throw her hands up to the world and submit. The Time Keeper is the story of Linda's return and one last somersault down the river is required. With the North Carolina state baseball playoffs in full swing, seventeen year old Corey Wails has more important matters to attend than his mother's recent wish to make amends. To Corey, life is as simple as the game -- a fastball, a curve ball, and waste a pitch before the strike out. It is the game that Corey loves, and like a ball player who hears no chatter he tightens his blinders and races towards the finish line. But what he finds when he gets there bares no resemblance to what he had dreamed for so long. His mother's change of heart is puzzling to Corey; he wonders how such a thing occurred, how something larger than life itself crept inside the body of Linda Wails and whispered, 'It will be okay Linda, this is the natural way of things.' Linda wonders if that voice will ever reach her son. Perhaps the voice that is larger than life itself is none but our own, buried deep inside of us. One thing is certain, the Time Keeper will not be kept waiting.
Timekeeper
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Author : Alexandra Monir
language : en
Publisher: Ember
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Timekeeper written by Alexandra Monir and has been published by Ember this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Colleen Houck, New York Times bestselling author of the Tiger’s Curse series said, “Timekeeper is a haunting, mysterious dream; a book you don't want to miss!” This sequel to Timeless combines breathtaking romance with a tale of complex magic in a story that will have every reader believing in the transcendent power of love. When Philip Walker appears as a new student in Michele Windsor's high school class, she is floored. He is the love she thought she lost forever when they said goodbye during her time travels last century. Overjoyed that they can resume the relationship they had a lifetime ago, Michele eagerly approaches him and discovers the unthinkable: he doesn't remember her. In fact, he doesn't seem to remember anything about the Philip Walker of 1910. Michele then finds her father's journals, which tell stories of his time-traveling past. As she digs deeper, she learns about his entanglement with a mysterious and powerful organization called the Time Society and his dealings with a vengeful Windsor ancestor. Michele soon finds herself at the center of a rift over 120 years in the making, one whose resolution will have life-or-death consequences.