50 Jahre/Years LCD Armbanduhren/Wristwatches


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Vor 50 Jahren 1972, kamen die ersten LCD-Armbanduhren auf den Markt. LED-Armbanduhren wurden kurz zuvor vorgestellt. Beide Systeme wurden etwa zur gleichen Zeit entwickelt. LED-Uhren hatten den Vorteil, dass sie bei Dunkelheit mit einem Knopfdruck die Zeit gut anzeigten. Ihr Nachteil war der hohe Stromverbrauch. LCD-Uhren benötigen eine Hintergrundbeleuchtung. Heute werden immer noch LCD-Module hergestellt. Die Haltbarkeit der Batterie kann mehrere Jahre sein. Auch die robuste Technik sprach dafür, dass LCD-Module mit tollen Features kombiniert werden konnten. Bei den LED-Uhren gab es davon wenige, etwa eine Rechneruhr. Ob allerdings LED- oder LCD-Uhren, die anfängliche Technik benötigte viel Handarbeit. Die Uhrenmodule wurden noch von Hand gelötet. Erst als die LCD-Module handlicher wurden, konnten Features und das Uhrenmodul in einem Gehäuse eingebaut werden. Zu erwähnen sind: Feuerzeug, Kompass, TV, Radio, Funk, Fernsteuerung, Spielzeug, usw. Genau darauf geht das erste Kapitel dieses Buches ein. Es wird eine bunte Auswahl solcher Armbanduhren gezeigt. Im zweiten Kapitel geht es um die Geschichte der LCD-Uhren... wer hat sie erfunden und entwickelt? Wer hat zuerst eine LCD-Uhr auf den Markt gebracht? Wie funktioniert ein LCD-Display? Dieses Buch ist ein einzigartiges Exposé für LCD-Uhren. This book is a unique exposé for LCD watches. Watches with additional functions are shown (lighter, TV, radio, radio, navigation, agent, translator, weather, vibration...). The history of LCD watches is also discussed. Also on the technology. Who was the first... GRUEN or Cox or ? Definitely AMI and ILIXCO...




Haldimann Horology


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Extravagant Inventions


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Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition "Extravagant Inventions: the Princely Furniture of the Roentgens" on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 30, 2102, through January 27, 2013.




When Corporatism Leads to Corporate Governance Failure


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Corporatism is often seen as the way Swiss stakeholders in business and politics are handling industrial challenges in a reasonable and flexible way. The following paper argues, however, that the emergence of corporatist structures in the Swiss watch industry has often encouraged rent-seeking and collusion at the expense of innovation and competition. This legacy makes it currently difficult for the industry to effectively respond to new technological challenges and changing societal preferences in the global watch business. The book draws on archival sources, accessible since 2015, that have also been extensively discussed in the Swiss print media in early 2016. They provide increasing evidence of corporate governance failure in the 1983 merger of SSIH (Société suisse pour l'industrie horlogère) and ASUAG (Allgemeine Schweizerische Uhrenindustrie AG) that led to today's Swatch Group. The merger, induced by the Swiss banks, was portrayed as a necessary step to save the two allegedly bankrupt watch companies. Yet, the archival sources show that ASUAG had already been successfully restructured and ready to conquer global markets with its new product, the Swatch.




The Dishonoured


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Surrounded by lies and deceit how do you work out who is telling the truth? When highly decorated war hero, Colonel Tariq joins the intelligence agency, his rise to the top seems assured. But in his first case he discovers a CIA agent has killed a young prostitute and a diplomatic crisis erupts.As the two nations negotiate, angry mobs take to the streets and he is caught up in a national scandal. Tariq is instructed to eliminate the only witness and instigate a cover up, trapping him in a terrible moral dilemma. As his professional ambition and private life collide, he must make a life changing decision that will have far reaching consequences for the future of his family and his country.




Design


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For students of design, professional product designers, and anyone interested in design equally indispensable: the fully revised and updated edition of the reference work on product design. The book traces the history of product design and its current developments, and presents the most important principles of design theory and methodology, looking in particular at the communicative function of products and highlighting aspects such as corporate and service design, design management, strategic design, interface/interaction design and human design.. From the content: Design and history: The Bauhaus; The Ulm School of Design; The Example of Braun; The Art of Design Design and Globalization Design and Methodology: Epistemological Methods in Design Design and Theory: Aspects of the Disciplinary Design Theory Design and its Context: From Corporate Design to Service Design Product Language and Product Semiotics Architecture and Design Design and Society Design and Technological Progress




Patek Philippe Steel Watches


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With this magnificent volume, watch expert and authority John Goldberger, author of 100 Superlative Rolex Watches, presents the most beautiful and remarkable watches ever fitted with steel cases by the Geneva-based watch company Patek Philippe. With the collaboration of the world's leading collectors and connoisseurs, the collection presented in this exclusive publication is the result of painstaking research, supplemented by professional photographs that show the most minute details and characteristics of the movement, case and dial of each timekeeper. With 187 superb examples, as well as over 900 color illustrations and 800 descriptive texts, this volume offers the watch collector and enthusiast invaluable information about the finest rare masterpieces of Patek Philippe's production, including recent research on referencenumbers, dials, movements, related calibers and each watch's year of production. Organized in 12 chapters, this tome covers a century of the company's quintessential spirit and style.




Perfect Scale


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"Thinking and working at different scales is at the core of the architecture. But how much of that design decision must be made? At what time it is useful to change the scale? What can, what should be displayed in a scaled architectural drawings? And how it is possible that this drawing is clear, legible, yet an aesthetic desire? The architectural drawing is not least a means of communication. It contains information that is relevant to different addressees. Choosing the right scale determines whether the client or the craftsman understands what is meant. Given the numerous possibilities of CAD gets the goal, to transport their own ideas clearly and unambiguously, sometimes out of sight. Ansgar and Benedikt Schulz provide guidance and lead the architectural drawing exemplarily back to its original purpose: to provide excellent buildings" -- Publicaciones Arquitectura y Arte.




International Symposium on History of Machines and MechanismsProceedings HMM 2000


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The International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms is a new initiative to promote explicitly researches and publications in the field of the History of TMM (Theory of Machines and Mechanisms). It was held at the University of Cassino, Italy, from 11 to 13 May 2000. The Symposium was devoted mainly to the technical aspects of historical developments and therefore it has been addressed mainly to the IFToMM Community. In fact, most the authors of the contributed papers are experts in TMM and related topics. This has been, indeed, a challenge: convincing technical experts to go further in-depth into the background of their topics of expertise. We have received a very positive response, as can be seen by the fact that these Proceedings contain contributions by authors from all around the world. We received about 50 papers, and after review about 40 papers were accepted for both presentation and publishing in the Proceedings. This means also that the History of TMM is of interest everywhere and, indeed, an in-depth knowledge of the past can be of great help in working on the present and in shaping the future with new ideas. I believe that a reader will take advantage of the papers in these Proceedings with further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not). These papers cover the wide field of the History of Mechanical Engineering and particularly the History of TMM.




Index of Reports


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