Jonathan Betts

Time Restored: The Harrison Timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the Man Who Knew (Almost) Everything

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Produktbeschreibung

Biography of the polymath, Lt Cmdr Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the man who, in the 1920s, restored the great eighteenth century marine timekeepers by John Harrison to their former glory. With his encyclopaedic knowledge, he studied and wrote on subjects as varied as scientific mysteries (e.g. The Loch Ness Monster) and horology (timekeeping).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780199606719
• ISBN-10: 0199606714
• Artikelnr.: 32730799

Inhaltsangabe

0: Introduction: Rupert T Gould
1: Childhood 1890-1905
2: Navy Training 1906-1913
3: The War, a Breakdown and Marriage 1914-1920
4: John Harrison and The Marine Chronometer
5: Research and the First Restorations 1920-1922
6: The Magnum Opus 1921-1923
7: Horology: the Obsession
8: H2 is Restored 1923-1925
9: The Sette of Odd Volumes
10: Separation 1925-1927
11: Oddities and Enigmas 1928-1929
12: The Case for the Sea Serpent 1930
13: The R.A.S. Regulator 1927-1929
14: H3 is completed 1929-1931
15: H1: the full restoration 1931-1933
16: The Loch Ness Monster 1933-1934
17: The Harrison Timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935
18: Professor Stewart, The BBC and Tennis 1936
19: Many projects 1936-1937
20: Leaving Downside and leaving London 1937-1939
21: Upper Hurdcott and the Brain's Trust 1940-1945
22: Canterbury and a Gold Medal 1943 -1948
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