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    Curiosities of the Mechanical Details in Watches
    Curiosities of the Mechanical Details in Watches
    Curiosities of the Mechanical Details in Watches
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    Curiosities of the Mechanical Details in Watches

    By Anon Anon

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    This antiquarian volume contains a short account of some of the curiosities of the mechanical details of watches, with supplementary information on their history, development, popularity, and much more besides. Written in clear, concise language and full of interesting facts and information about the intricate machinations of timepieces, this little text will be of much value to the watch enthusiast, and makes for a wonderful addition to any personal library. Many older works such as this are increasingly hard-to-come-by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that this work is being republished now in an affordable modern edition, complete with a new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateSep 6, 2016
    ISBN9781473353916
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      Curiosities of the Mechanical Details in Watches

      Copyright © 2013 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any way without the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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      A History of Clocks and Watches

      Horology (from the Latin, Horologium) is the science of measuring time. Clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time. In current usage, horology refers mainly to the study of mechanical timekeeping devices, whilst chronometry more broadly included electronic devices that have largely supplanted mechanical clocks for accuracy and precision in timekeeping. Horology itself has an incredibly long history and there are many museums and several specialised libraries devoted to the subject. Perhaps the most famous is the Royal Greenwich Observatory, also the source of the Prime Meridian (longitude 0° 0' 0"), and the home of the first marine timekeepers accurate enough to determine longitude.

      The word ‘clock’ is derived from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning ‘bell’. A silent instrument missing such a mechanism has traditionally been known as a timepiece, although today the words have become interchangeable. The clock is one of the oldest human interventions, meeting the need to consistently measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month and the year. The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately 2000 BC in Sumer. The Ancient Egyptians divided the day into two twelve-hour periods and used large obelisks to track the movement of the sun. They also developed water clocks, which had also been employed frequently by the Ancient Greeks, who called them ‘clepsydrae’. The Shang Dynasty is also believed to have used the outflow water clock around the same time.

      The first mechanical clocks, employing the verge escapement mechanism (the mechanism that controls the rate of a clock by advancing the gear train at regular intervals or 'ticks') with

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