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- Author: Edward Wenham
- Publisher: Parker Press
- Year: 2010
- Pages: 214
- ISBN-10: 1445518473
- ISBN-13: 9781445518473
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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This volume contains a detailed treatise on vintage clocks, with a guide to their mechanisms, information on their development, descriptions of different varieties, information on reproductions, and much more. Written in simple, accessible language and containing a wealth of practicable and interesting information, this text will be of much value to the discerning clock-enthusiast and to all those who have an affection for fine clocks, whether old or modern, as part of their home surroundings. The chapters of this volume include: Sundials; Water and Sand Time-Recorders; Time by Fire, Candle and Lamp; Weights and Wheels; The Pulse of Time; Lantern Clocks; Smaller Portable Timepieces; Bracket Clocks; The Companionable Grandfather; Act of Parliament and Other Wall Clocks, et cetera. This antiquarian book is being republished now complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.
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- Author: Edward Wenham
- Publisher: Parker Press
- Year: 2010
- Pages: 214
- ISBN-10: 1445518473
- ISBN-13: 9781445518473
- Format: 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
This volume contains a detailed treatise on vintage clocks, with a guide to their mechanisms, information on their development, descriptions of different varieties, information on reproductions, and much more. Written in simple, accessible language and containing a wealth of practicable and interesting information, this text will be of much value to the discerning clock-enthusiast and to all those who have an affection for fine clocks, whether old or modern, as part of their home surroundings. The chapters of this volume include: Sundials; Water and Sand Time-Recorders; Time by Fire, Candle and Lamp; Weights and Wheels; The Pulse of Time; Lantern Clocks; Smaller Portable Timepieces; Bracket Clocks; The Companionable Grandfather; Act of Parliament and Other Wall Clocks, et cetera. This antiquarian book is being republished now complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.
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