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001 2002156717
003 DLC
005 20040303134933.0
008 030107s2003 paua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2002156717
020 $a0764316362
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050 00 $aTS543.E54$bR63 2003
082 00 $a681.1/13/0942$221
100 1 $aRoberts, Derek.
245 10 $aPrecision pendulum clocks :$bthe quest for accurate timekeeping /$cDerek Roberts ; major contributors, Jonathan Betts ... [et al.].
260 $aAtglen, PA :$bSchiffer Pub.,$c2003.
300 $a224 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c31 cm.
440 2 $aA Schiffer book for collectors
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aI: Finding and keeping time: from stars to pendulum -- II: The birth of accurate timekeeping: the Royal Observatory -- III: Solar, mean solar and the equation of time, sidereal, local, and Greenwich mean time -- IV: Factors affecting the isochronicity of a pendulum -- V: Compensated pendulums -- VI: Escapements -- VII: Electric clocks -- VIII: Pendulum clock precision, 1750-1960 -- IX: Thomas Tompion and George Graham -- X: John Harrison -- XI: John Shelton,Thomas Mudge and William Dutton -- XII: John Ellicott and Alexander Cumming -- XIII: John Arnold, John Roger Arnold, and Arnold & Dent -- XIV: The regulators of Thomas Earnshaw and George Margetts -- XV: The Vulliamys -- XVI: The spring pallet: escapements of Hardy and Reid -- XVII: James Ferguson, Benjamin Martin, Henry Ward, Joseph Banister, William Congreve, William George Schoof, and Thomas Cole -- XVIII: Robert Molyneux, the Condlif's, Thomas lLeyland, Henry Walsh, and Thomas Cooke -- XIX:The Frodshams -- XX: E.J. Dent & his successors, including the work of Brock -- XI: The Georgian and Regency period -- XXII: Victorian regulators, including the gravity escapement -- XXIII: Wall and table regulators.
650 0 $aClock and watch making$zEngland$xHistory.
650 0 $aClock and watch making$zFrance$xHistory.
650 0 $aClock and watch making$zGermany$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy043/2002156717.html