About Time
Author | : Bruce Koscielniak |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Time |
ISBN | : 0618396683 |
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Author | : Bruce Koscielniak |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Time |
ISBN | : 0618396683 |
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Author | : Pat Hutchins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1481410725 |
When the hall clock reads twenty minutes past four, the attic clock reads twenty-three minutes past four, the kitchen clock reads twenty-five minutes past four, and the bedroom clock reads twenty-six minutes past four, what should Mr. Higgins do? He can't tell which of his clocks tells the right time. He is in for a real surprise when the Clockmaker shows him that they are all correct!
Author | : Scott Alan Johnston |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2022-01-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0228009642 |
Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways – from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling.
Author | : Jules Older |
Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1632899027 |
Telling time becomes clear and easy for young readers in this bright and lively introduction to measurements of time. From seconds to minutes, hours to days, exploring what time is and discovering why we need to tell time, helps young readers understand more than 'the big hand is on the one and the little hand is on the two'. Megan Halsey’s playful illustrations depict imaginative digital and analog clocks that range in design. With the help of a whole lot of clocks, a dash of humor, and a few familiar circumstances, learning to tell time is a lot of fun. It's about time.
Author | : David Rooney |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780241370513 |
Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 -- Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE -- Faith : Castle Clock, Diyār Bakr, 1206 -- Virtue : the hourglass of Temperance, Siena, 1338 -- Markets : stock exchange clock, Amsterdam, 1611 -- Knowledge : Samrat Yantra, Jaipur, 1732-35 -- Empires : observatory time ball, Cape Town, 1833 -- Manufacture : Gog and Magog, London, 1865 -- Morality : electric time system, Brno, 1903-6 -- Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913 -- Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935 -- War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972 -- Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970.5500 650|s| |a|Clocks and watches |x|History.
Author | : Stuart Sherman |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780226752761 |
In Telling Time, Stuart Sherman argues that innovations in prose emerged with this technological breakthrough, enabling authors to recount the new kind of time by which England was learning to live and work.
Author | : Eric Bruton |
Publisher | : Chartwell Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004-05 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
ISBN | : 9780785818557 |
This book is a lucid and authoritative catalog of man's obsession with time and timepieces. Hundreds of full-color and black-and-white illustrations compliment intricate line drawings that illuminate the inner workings of these devices.
Author | : Peter Galison |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2004-09-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393243869 |
"More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book Review A dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, the meters and wires and epoxy and solder come alive as characters, along with physicists, engineers, technicians and others.…Galison has unearthed fascinating material" (New York Times). Clocks and trains, telegraphs and colonial conquest: the challenges of the late nineteenth century were an indispensable real-world background to the enormous theoretical breakthrough of relativity. And two giants at the foundations of modern science were converging, step-by-step, on the answer: Albert Einstein, an young, obscure German physicist experimenting with measuring time using telegraph networks and with the coordination of clocks at train stations; and the renowned mathematician Henri Poincaré, president of the French Bureau of Longitude, mapping time coordinates across continents. Each found that to understand the newly global world, he had to determine whether there existed a pure time in which simultaneity was absolute or whether time was relative. Esteemed historian of science Peter Galison has culled new information from rarely seen photographs, forgotten patents, and unexplored archives to tell the fascinating story of two scientists whose concrete, professional preoccupations engaged them in a silent race toward a theory that would conquer the empire of time.
Author | : Alexis McCrossen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022601486X |
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.
Author | : Jim Linz |
Publisher | : Schiffer Pub Limited |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001-01-01 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9780764311901 |
Over 700 Telechron and General Electric clocks produced between 1925 and 1955 are chronicled. Repair and restoration tips are given, including an astonishing method for breathing new life into dead rotors. Designers are included, and celebrities are pictured in early advertisements.