The
historic watch and clock making Reference Library is a fascinating collection
of 23 fascinating books and other works related to watch and clock making in the
late 19th and early-mid 20th centuries.
This
collection spans 1000's of pages and contains hundreds of illustrations in its
many volumes and makes a great addition to the watchmaking and clockmaking techniques
historian or dedicate horology professional/hobbyist.
All
the titles contained on this CD are listed below.
The
watch adjuster's manual : being a practical guide for the watch and chronometer
adjuster in making, springing, timing and adjusting for isochronism, positions
and temperatures (1894) - Fritts, Charles Edgar - 361 pages
A
rudimentary treatise on clock and watch making; with a chapter on church clocks;
and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster Clock (1850)
- Denison, Edmund Beckett - 279 pages
History
of the American clock business for the past sixty years, and life of Chauncey
Jerome (1860) - Jerome, Chauncey - 59 pages
A
practical course in horology (1944) - Kelly, Harold Caleb - 192 pages
Lancaster's
Part in the World's Watchmaking Industry (1945) - John J. Bowman - 36 pages
Accutron
Service Manual Series 214 (1969) - Bulova Watch Company, Inc. - 39 pages
Accutron
Service Manual Series 218 (May 24, 1969) - Bulova Watch Company, Inc. - 52 pages
Service
and Repair of the Hamilton Electric Watch - Hamilton Watch Company - 58 pages
Old
Scottish clockmakers from 1453 to 1850 (1921) - 436 pages
The
marine chronometer, its history and development. With a foreword by Sir Frank
W. Dyson (1923) - Gould, Rupert Thomas - 287 pages
On
the springing and adjusting of watches ... (1898) - Britten, F. J. (Frederick
James) - 152 pages
US
Patent 2601942: Resilient pad for wrist watches (July 1, 1952) - Pachter, Frank
- 3 pages
Collection
of watches loaned to the Metropolitan museum of art of the city of New York (1907)
- Hearn, George A., Mrs; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Howard,
Wendell Stanton; Buck, John H. - 35 pages
US
Patent 2601029: Method of making a thickened reinforced portion in a relatively
thin metal plate (June 17, 1952) - Illinois Watch Case Co - 5 pages
Catalogue
and price-list of fine imported and American machinery, tools, materials, and
supplies for machinists, jewellers, watchmakers .. (1875) - Frasse & co -
112 pages
Modern
letter engraving in theory and practice; a manual for the use of watchmakers,
jewelers and other metal engravers .. (1898) - Rees, Fred Holmes - 176 pages
Watch
and clock making (1885) - David Glasgow - 341 pages
Treatise
on Clock and Watch Making: Theoretical and Practical (1832) - Thomas Reid - 476
pages
A Rudimentary
Treatise on Clock and Watch Making: With a Chapter on Church Clocks; (1850) -
Baron Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe - 279 pages
New
and complete clock and watchmakers' manual .. (1860) - Booth, Mary L. (Mary Louise)
- 294 pages
Former
Clock & Watchmakers and Their Work: Including an Account of the Development
of ... (1894) - Frederick James Britten - 397 pages
The
watchmakers' hand-book: intended as a workshop companion for those who are engaged
in ... (1881) - Claudius Saunier , Edward Rigg, Julien Tripplin - 482 pages
The
Watch & Clockmakers' Handbook (1881) - Frederick James Britten - 172 pages
Here
are the computer requirements to run and operate this CD. You must have a PC running
Windows or a Macintosh running OS X or higher software and a web browser. All
the manuals in this disk are in PDF or DJVU format. Both viewers are very easy
to use for reading and printing out all or part of each manual. The DVJU viewer
is included on the CD. And if you need it, the web adddress of Adobe Acrobat reader
is also included on the CD but chances are you already have this viewer installed
on your computer.
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