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Author: Jacques David
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ISBN: 9780958136921
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Author: Jacques David
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ISBN: 9780958136921
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Author: James Craig Watson
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Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Author: Alexis McCrossen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601486X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.
Author: Alun C. Davies
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000571904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
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This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Author: United States. Bureau of Manufactures
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Author: United States. Consuls
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 622
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Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign Commerce
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Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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