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Clocks and More Clocks
Author | : Pat Hutchins |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2014-01-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781481410724 |
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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!
The Clocks Are Telling Lies
Author | : Scott Alan Johnston |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2022-01-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780228009641 |
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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.
Why Do Clocks Run Clockwise and Other Imponderables
Author | : David Feldman |
Publsiher | : Harper Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN | : 0060915153 |
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Why, do clocks run clockwise? Why don't people get goosebumps o their faces?Why does the mon look larger on the horizon?
Character and Novelty Clocks and Watches
Author | : Jim Collings,Merlyn Collings |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Clocks and watches |
ISBN | : 1574326902 |
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Animated novelty items date back to the nineteenth century. The artwork, design, and in some cases animation are unique, and enhance any collection.
Making Clocks
Author | : Stan Bray |
Publsiher | : Workshop Practice |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Clock and watch making |
ISBN | : 1854862146 |
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Stan Bray introduces the fascinating world of horology to the complete beginner. This book explains the terminology of the clockmaker and provides general details of clock construction including layout of wheels and escarpments, a number of the latter being described. Making of wheels, pinions, escarpments, plates, pendulums, weights, cases, hands and faces is described. The necessary tools and equipment are described with details of how to make specialized items and choice of most suitable materials for their construction.
About Time
Author | : Bruce Koscielniak |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 49 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Time |
ISBN | : 9780618396689 |
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The Story of Clocks and Calendars
Author | : Betsy Maestro |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2004-11-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780060589455 |
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Travel through time with the maestros as they explore the amazing history of timekeeping! Did you know that there is more than one calendar? While the most commonly used calendar was on the year 2000, the Jewish calendar said it was the year 5760, while the Muslim calendar said 1420 and the Chinese calendar said 4698. Why do these differences exist? How did ancient civilizations keep track of time? When and how were clocks first invented? Find answers to all these questions and more in this incredible trip through history.
About Time
Author | : David Rooney |
Publsiher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0241370515 |
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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.