TY  - BOOK
AU  - Struthers,Rebecca
AU  - Struthers,Craig
AU  - Pilsbury,Andy
TI  - Hands of time: a watchmaker's history 
SN  - 9780063048706
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Clock and watch making
KW  - History
KW  - Clocks and watches
KW  - Time
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Horology
N1  - "Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK."--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index; A backward-facing foreword -- Facing the sun -- Ingenious devices -- Tempus fugit -- The Golden Age -- Forging time -- Revolution time -- Working to the clock -- The watch of action -- Accelerated time -- Man and machine -- Eleventh hour -- How to repair a watch
N2  - An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch; Timepieces have accompanied human society from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest; the ice of the Arctic to the surface of the moon. Struthers provides a history of watchmaking, describing our earliest attempts at timekeeping and the ways in which it has shaped our attitudes to work, leisure, trade, politic, exploration, and mortality. -- adapted from jacket
ER  -