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Author:

Struthers, Rebecca, author.

Title:

Hands of time : a watchmaker's history / Rebecca Struthers ; with illustrations by Craig Struthers ; and photographs by Andy Pilsbury.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Clock and watch making--History.
Clocks and watches--History.
Time--Social aspects.
Horology.

Other Authors:

Struthers, Craig, illustrator.
Pilsbury, Andy, photographer.

Notes:

"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK."--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-252) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.
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

ISBN:

0063048701
9780063048706

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1381361592

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

VXPE964 -- Decorah Public Library (Decorah)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)