Author :
Publisher : Mayfield Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 14,23 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This work contains the apprenticeship detail of over 14,000 clockmakers, watchmakers and others involved in the horological trade, listed under both the apprentice and his master, extracted from tax records in the Public Record Office.
Author : Bill Attwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 2019-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0244809305
Bill Attwell's Research Notes reveal intimate details of the lives of ancestors now long gone. Compiled over forty years whilst researching the Attwell Family, these books show everything he has discovered about the featured families: husbands, wives and children. Each book provides a wealth of information about the family, and might typically include: - parents and children - birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial - residence, places of business and occupations - transcripts of wills, administrations and probate records - transcripts of land and property transactions - criminal and civil legal proceedings - bankruptcy proceedings - apprenticeship records - transcripts of census records - taxation records - newspaper reports and parish records - old written recollections - source reference data
Author : Bill Attwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0244210594
Bill Attwell's Research Notes reveal intimate details of the lives of ancestors now long gone. Compiled over forty years whilst researching the Attwell Family, these books show everything he has discovered about the featured families: husbands, wives and children. Each book provides a wealth of information about the family, and might typically include: - parents and children - birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial - residence, places of business and occupations - transcripts of wills, administrations and probate records - transcripts of land and property transactions - criminal and civil legal proceedings - bankruptcy proceedings - apprenticeship records - transcripts of census records - taxation records - newspaper reports and parish records - old written recollections - source reference data
Author : Bill Attwell
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2014-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1291858342
Black & White version - This is the second in a series of three books covering the history of the Attwell family. Now in its second edition, and considerably updated, this volume extends over 250 years, and recounts the lives of six generations of Attwells during the period 1640 - 1890. The book reveals how a Master of the Waxchandler's Company knew King Charles II, and how the royal association ultimately led to our ancestor's downfall. It shows how the family then moved from London to the Midlands. There they settled and prospered successively as school teachers, a staymaker and then as watchmakers, returning eventually to London where they became probably the foremost family of butchers in the capital. This volume not only describes their lives, but also provides detailed biographical information, numerous family trees, Wills, inventories, details of land dealings and much other fascinating information. Essential reading for all Attwell Family Historians, and an ideal birthday or Christmas gift.
Author : Clare Vincent
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1588395790
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1000571904
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.
Author : Donald Whyte
Publisher : Mayfield Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Mike Royden
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1844686760
Tracing Your Liverpool Ancestors' gives a fascinating insight into everyday life in the Liverpool area over the past four centuries. Aimed primarily at the family and social historian, Mike Royden's highly readable guide introduces readers to the wealth of material available on the citys history and its people. In a series of short, information-packed chapters he describes, in vivid detail, the rise of Liverpool through shipping, manufacturing and trade from the original fishing village to the cosmopolitan metropolis of the present day. Throughout he concentrates on the lives of the local people on their experience as Liverpool developed around them. He looks at their living conditions, at poverty and the laboring poor, at health and the ravages of disease, at the influence of religion and migration, at education and the traumatic experience of war. He shows how the lives of Liverpudlians changed over the centuries and how this is reflected in the records that have survived. His useful book is a valuable tool for anyone researching the history of the city or the life of an individual ancestor.
Author : Tony Branston
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 019151117X
The Marine Chronometers at Greenwich is the fifth, and largest, of the distinguished series of catalogues of instruments in the collections of the National Maritime Museum. Housed at the Royal Observatory Greenwich — the 'home of time' and the Prime Meridian of the world — this extraordinary collection, which includes the celebrated marine timekeepers by John Harrison (1693-1776), is generally considered to be the finest of its kind in existence. The book is however much more than just a catalogue, and includes an accessible and engaging history of the chronometer, revealing why these instruments were important in our scientific and cultural history, and explaining, in simple terms, how they worked and were used. A comprehensive Glossary and Bibliography are included to ensure any technicalities are explained and that the reader has suggestions for useful 'further reading'. Over 480 photographs and illustrations, including many fine macro-photographs and line drawings, illustrate the 'jewel-like' beauty of the chronometer's construction and explain the function and subtleties of its mechanism. A chapter on 'How the Chronometer was Made', describes the fine sub-division of labour used to create these special machines, from bare metal, right up to delivery on board ship, and brief biographies of the makers tell the human story behind this important nineteenth-century industry. Another chapter, 'The Evolution of the Chronometer', aimed at collectors, historians and curators, provides clearly structured information on assessing and dating the chronometer, something many find difficult. And, for the dedicated specialist, there is extensive tabulated data on the technical structure of this important collection, a unique resource for future research.
