Turning Point Inventions Clock,9780689828140

Turning Point Inventions Clock

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ISBN13: 9780689828140
ISBN10: 0689828144
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher(s): Atheneum
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Summary

Today, surrounded as we are by clocks and watches, it is hard to imagine life without an exact method of timekeeping. Until the mechanical clock was invented and improved, people had a less precise sense of the passage of time, based largely on the mov

Author Biography

Trent Duffy is an editor and writer who has extensive experience in book publishing. He is the author of The Vanishing Wetlands (Franklin Watts 1994). He lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

The Beginnings of Time
6(12)
The Invention of the Mechanical Clock
18(12)
John Harrison and the Chronometric Clock
30(16)
Clocks and the Industrial Revolution
46(22)
The Future of Time
68(10)
Further Reading 78(1)
Index 79(1)
Acknowledgments 80

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