2499 - Old Clocks

For modern use with a guide to their mechanism.

CONTENTS

Preface :

SECTION I
PRIMITIVE TIME-TELLERS
CHAPTER
1. Sundials
2. Water and Sand Time-recorders
3. Time by Fire, Candle and Lamp

SECTION 2
THE FIRST MECHANICAL CLOCKS
4. Weights and Wheels
5. The Pulse of Time

SECTION 3
TIMEPIECES FOR MODERN ROOMS
6. Lantern Clocks
7. Smaller Portable Timepieces
8. Bracket Clocks
9. The Companionable Grandfather

SECTION 4
CURIOSITIES AND NOVELTIES
10. Act of Parliament and other Wall Clocks
11. Some Quaint Horologes

SECTION 5
THE FEATURES WE SEE
12. The Types of the Long Cases
13. Dials, Hands and Corner Pieces
14. Summary of Development of Mechanical Clocks

SECTION 6
THE NEW FROM THE OLD
15. Modern Reproductions of Early Clocks

SECTION 7
THROUGH THREE CENTURIES
16. Freeman Clockmakers

174 Seiten

Verlag : 1964