Hands of time
a watchmaker's history
Book - 2023
An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch.
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2023]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Struthers, Rebecca, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Hands of time : |b a watchmaker's history / |c Rebecca Struthers ; with illustrations by Craig Struthers ; and photographs by Andy Pilsbury. |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c [2023] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2023 | |
| 300 | |a xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK."--Title page verso | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a A backward-facing foreword -- Facing the sun -- Ingenious devices -- Tempus fugit -- The Golden Age -- Forging time -- Revolution time -- Working to the clock -- The watch of action -- Accelerated time -- Man and machine -- Eleventh hour -- How to repair a watch. | |
| 520 | |a An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Timepieces have accompanied human society from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest; the ice of the Arctic to the surface of the moon. Struthers provides a history of watchmaking, describing our earliest attempts at timekeeping and the ways in which it has shaped our attitudes to work, leisure, trade, politic, exploration, and mortality. -- adapted from jacket | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Clocks and watches |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Time |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Horology. | |
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