Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / / Jonathan Betts.
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 464 p. :; ill. (some col.), map. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Betts, Jonathan. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Time restored |h [electronic resource] : |b the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / |c Jonathan Betts. |
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum, |c 2006. | ||
| 300 | |a xvi, 464 p. : |b ill. (some col.), map. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [361]-400) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Childhood 1890-1905 -- Navy training 1906-1913 -- The war, a breakdown, and marriage 1914-1920 -- John Harrison and the marine chronometer -- Research and the first restorations 1920-1922 -- The magnum opus 1921-1923 -- Horology : the obsession -- H2 is restored 1923-1925 -- The sette of odd volumes -- Separation 1925-1927 -- Oddities and enigmas 1928-1929 -- The case for the sea serpent 1930 -- The RAS regulator 1927-1929 -- H3 is completed 1929-1931 -- H1 the full restoration 1931-1933 -- The Loch Ness monster 1933-1934 -- The Harrison timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935 -- Professor Stewart, the BBC, and tennis 1936 -- Many projects 1936-1937 -- Leaving downside, leaving London 1937-1939 -- Upper Hurdcott and the brains trust 1940-1945 -- Canterbury and a gold medal 1945-1948. | |
| 533 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Gould, Rupert Thomas, |d 1890-1948. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Chronometers. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Nautical instruments. | |
| 655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
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