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This book describes a history of clocks and watches, with emphasis on their use at sea for determining longitude.
It traces the technical development in time-keeping instruments from Sun-dials and sand-glasses; through the earliest mechanical clocks and watches; the works and times of Harrison, Berthroud, Le Roy, etc. and the Board of Longitude; to more recently invented mechanisms, focussing on the mechanisms themselves rather than their inventors. Finally, there is a section describing the modern marine chronometer and its use.
This book is very well written, with diagrams and descriptions which should make sense to anyone with a modicum of mechanical understanding. The only criticism is in some of the references to the photographs, which in places do not match; the subject of the photograph being not that of the text.
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Chronometers, History, Longitude, Marine, Nautical instruments, Sea, chronometerShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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The marine chronometer: its history and development
1989, Antique Collector's Club
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0907462057 9780907462057
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