Document Details [S-2002-05-15-Gva] Important Watches and Wristwatches:
Number of documents found: 4
- Title: And about time too
- Author: Arnold Sir Wolfendale
- Publisher:
Keywords: astronomy
Kind: Content
Pages: 4
BHM No: 7605
Parent Document ID: 5271 - Parent Document Title: Proceedings of the Fitieth Anniversary Convention - Antiquarian Hrological Society- Title: Excitement of Time [The...] - John Harrison, the Royal; Society and Time Measurement
SubTitle: selected for the Royal Society's science exhibition 2006- Author: John C. Taylor, Arnold Sir Wolfendale, John C. [Photography] Taylor
- Publisher: Fromanteel Ltd
Keywords: catalog UK-London temp-compensation
Other Keywords: grashopper escapement bimettalic John HArrison
Language: ENG
Notes: Monograph (and 2006 exhibition catalog) on the Contributions of John Harrison and of the Royal Society (London) to Timekeeping, and on Harrisons membership in the Royal Society. Includes a general history of precision timekeeping up to the present and a detailed discussion of temperature bimetallic compensation and of the grashopper escapement. Richly illustrated in color. Index, glossary, biblio
Edition: 2006, 1st edition -- Copyright: 2006
Kind: Book
Type: Timekeeper (general)
Geographic area: United Kingdom
Topic: History
Organization: SciAssociation
Pages: 88 -- Height in cm: 31
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10583- Title: Harrison in the Abbey
SubTitle: Published in honour of John Harrison on the ocasion of the unveiling of his memorial in the Abbey on 24 March 2006- Author: Arnold Sir Wolfendale
- Publisher: Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
Keywords: UK-London
Other Keywords: Harrison
ISBN: ??
Language: ENG
Notes: A commemorative booklet (illustrated in color) published on occasion of the unveiling of the Harrison Memorial in Westmister Abbey in 2006, contains the speeches (by Dana Sobel, Will Andrewes, George White, Jonathan Betts etc) given on that occasion
Edition: 2006 -- Copyright: 2006
Kind: Book
Type: Marine Chronometer
Geographic area: United Kingdom
Topic: History
Organization: Person
Pages: 78 -- Height in cm: 21
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 10140- Title: Proceedings of the Fitieth Anniversary Convention - Antiquarian Hrological Society
SubTitle: Keble College Oxford, March 2003- Author: Horological Society, Antiquarian, Arnold Sir Wolfendale, Rita Shenton, Simon Bull, John C. Taylor, Pier vanLeeuwen, Jim Bennett, Richard Garnier, Allan Chapman
- Publisher: Antiquarian Horological Society
Other Keywords: Tompion Hooke
ISBN: ISSN 0003-5785
Language: ENG
Notes: minutes of and papers presented at the 50th anniversary conference of AHS in 2003 in Oxored
Edition: 2003 -- Copyright: 2003
Kind: Book
Type: Timekeeper (general)
Geographic area: UnitedKingdom
Topic: History
Organization: SciAssociation
Pages: 85 -- Height in cm: 25
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
BHM No: 5271 - Publisher:
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