A Clock For The Rooms The Horological Legacy Of The Library Company Of Philadelphia
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Author |
: Jay Robert Stiefel |
Publisher |
: The Library Company of Phil |
Total Pages |
: 28 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1422362760 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781422362761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis ‘A Clock for the Rooms’: The Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia by : Jay Robert Stiefel
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: |
Publisher |
: The Library Company of Phil |
Total Pages |
: 100 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 1422366626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781422366622 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Library Company of Philadelphia: 2008 Annual Report by :
Author |
: Stacy Perman |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 525 |
Release |
: 2013-02-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781439190104 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1439190100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Grand Complication by : Stacy Perman
Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including the design and manufacture of America’s first luxury car—the elegant and storied Packard. Henry Graves, Jr., was the very essence of blue-blooded refinement in the early 1900s: son of a Wall Street financier, a central figure in New York high society, and a connoisseur of beautiful things—especially fine watches. Then, as now, expensive watches were the ultimate sign of luxury and wealth, but in the early twentieth century the limitless ambition, wealth, and creativity of these two men pushed the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, technology, and physics to create ever more ingenious timepieces. In any watch, features beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds are known as “complications.” Packard and Graves spurred acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe to create the Mona Lisa of timepieces—a fabled watch that incorporated twenty-four complications and took nearly eight years to design and build. For the period, it was the most complicated watch ever created. For years it disappeared, but then it surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1999, touching off a heated bidding war, shattering all known records when it fetched $11 million from an anonymous bidder. New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman takes us from the clubby world of New York high society into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers, and into the high-octane, often secretive subculture of modern-day watch collecting. With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.
Author |
: Renée Wolcott |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1606180819 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781606180815 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Art, Science, Invention by : Renée Wolcott
The Peale-Sellers Family Collection, held at the APS Library, is the world’s largest archival collection related to the Peales. Two recent American Philosophical Society Museum exhibitions, Curious Revolutionaries and Conservation and the Peale-Sellers Family Collection, included selected items from the collection. The conservation staff reviewed the selected items to ensure that they were stable enough to display for months without fading, discoloring, or suffering physical damage. When books or manuscripts could not be exhibited without conservation treatment, conservators repaired or stabilized them. Conservation of natural specimens and cultural artifacts is essential today, as it was for Charles Willson Peale when he opened his museum in Philosophical Hall. Renée Wolcott tells readers in her introduction, “As the owner of the nation’s first natural history museum, Charles Willson Peale served as both curator and conservator, concerned with selecting specimens for exhibition and preserving them for future museum visitors. He was also his own archivist, saving letters, diaries, and museum records that passed through his family for generations before becoming enshrined in the APS Library. This book examines the materials Peale and his family have left us, considers their preservation challenges, and discusses the evolution of conservation care for archival collections. Case studies of conservation treatment for six historic Peale-related artifacts illustrate some of the ways in which today’s conservators preserve the materials of the past for the sake of the future."--back cover.
Author |
: Rose Pesotta |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0875461271 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780875461274 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bread Upon the Waters by : Rose Pesotta
Author |
: Emily Faithfull |
Publisher |
: Applewood Books |
Total Pages |
: 402 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429004602 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429004606 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis Three Visits to America by : Emily Faithfull
A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.
Author |
: Thomas Sowell |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2016-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465096770 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465096778 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wealth, Poverty and Politics by : Thomas Sowell
In Wealth, Poverty, and Politics, Thomas Sowell, one of the foremost conservative public intellectuals in this country, argues that political and ideological struggles have led to dangerous confusion about income inequality in America. Pundits and politically motivated economists trumpet ambiguous statistics and sensational theories while ignoring the true determinant of income inequality: the production of wealth. We cannot properly understand inequality if we focus exclusively on the distribution of wealth and ignore wealth production factors such as geography, demography, and culture. Sowell contends that liberals have a particular interest in misreading the data and chastises them for using income inequality as an argument for the welfare state. Refuting Thomas Piketty, Paul Krugman, and others on the left, Sowell draws on accurate empirical data to show that the inequality is not nearly as extreme or sensational as we have been led to believe. Transcending partisanship through a careful examination of data, Wealth, Poverty, and Politics reveals the truth about the most explosive political issue of our time.
Author |
: Wayne |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 1971-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262130807 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262130806 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy by : Wayne
In his introduction to this book, George R. Harrison, Dean Emeritus of M.I.T.'s School of Science, writes as follows: "Basic to man's behavior is his ability to determine, modify, and adapt to his environment. This he has been able to do in proportion to his skill at making measurements, and fundamental to all other measuring operations is his ability to determine locations in the material world. Thus the science of mechanical measurements is a fundamental one. It is this science, and the art which accompanies and informs it, with which this book is concerned." This is the third book produced by the , Inc., of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Like all of its products, the book is marked by a clean precision of design and execution. The firm has built a worldwide reputation since 1924, both as a manufacturer of special tooling to extremely close accuracies and of machine tools that make possible a very high degree of precision. Wayne R. Moore has assembled in the 350 pages of Foundations of Mechanical Accuracythe company's intimate knowledge of and experience with mechanical accuracy, and how to achieve it. He has illustrated his text with over 500 original photographs and drawings. This book tells how to attain precision in manufacturing to millionths of an inch and how to control such precision by appropriate measuring techniques. The book is divided into four main sections: geometry, standards of length, dividing the circle, and roundness. A fifth section covers "Universal Measuring Machine Techniques and Applications." The book is printed in two colors throughout, and interspersed with full-page, full-color plates.
Author |
: Michael Adas |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 1989 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801497604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801497605 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Machines as the Measure of Men by : Michael Adas
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Author |
: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2015-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786455225 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786455225 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis When Scotland Was Jewish by : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.