Jacques David
Author | : Richard Paul Watkins |
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
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Author | : Richard Paul Watkins |
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Total Pages | : 9 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
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Author | : Jacques David (horloger.) |
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Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Jacques David |
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Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
ISBN | : 9780958136921 |
Author | : James Craig Watson |
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Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
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Author | : United States. Consuls |
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Total Pages | : 622 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
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Author | : Alexis McCrossen |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022601505X |
“Tells a story of a period when the quest for accurate timekeeping became an obsession in the US.” —Choice The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces—bells, time balls, and clock faces—that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares beneath them, men, women, and children wear wristwatches of all kinds. Americans have decorated their homes with clocks and included them in their poetry, sermons, stories, and songs. And as political instruments, social tools, and cultural symbols, these personal and public timekeepers have enjoyed a broad currency in art, life, and culture. In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks. While noting the difficulties in regulating and synchronizing so many timepieces, McCrossen expands our understanding of the development of modern time discipline, delving into the ways we have standardized time and describing how timekeepers have served as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that doesn’t merely value time but regards access to time as a natural-born right, a privilege of being an American. “A precise, acute, and well-measured monograph.” —Journal of Social History “Important and engaging.” —Journal of American History “ An innovative contribution on a key historical shift in modern life.” —Urban History “An authoritative narrative of how and where time and timepieces were distributed in the period.” —Reviews in American History
Author | : Alun C. Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2022-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000571904 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce |
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
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Author | : United States. Bureau of Manufactures |
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Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Consular reports |
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