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by Jo Ellen Barnett
Written in an easy-to-follow chronological format, this book traces the important developments in humankind's epic quest to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy. Author speaking tour.
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A perfect balance of science, history, and sociology, Time's Pendulum traces the important developments in humankind's epic quest to measure the hours, days, and years with accuracy, and how our concept of time has changed with each new technological breakthrough. Written in an easy-to-follow chronological format and illustrated with entertaining anecdotes, author Jo Ellen Barnett's history of timekeeping covers everything from the earliest sundials and water clocks, to the pendulum and the more recent advances of battery-powered, quartz-regulated wrist watches and the powerful radioactive "clock," which loses only a few billionths of a second per day, making it nearly ten billion times more accurate than the pendulum clock. A tour of the discoveries and the inventors who endeavored to chart and understand time, Time's Pendulum also explains how each new advance gradually transformed our perception of the world.
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- Title Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Tfrom Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of
- Author Jo Ellen Barnett
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, San Diego, CA
- Date 1999-03-25
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780156006491 / 0156006499
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.82 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.08 cm)
- Reading level 1410
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Time, Time measurements - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98049612
- Dewey Decimal Code 529.7
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“With Time's Pendulum, Barnett has shown us that there is a mystery and a great story to be found in the very time that flows past us and which rules our lives. There is no need for wild speculation. Time's Pendulum is history. In both senses of an ambiguous phrase, it is the history of our time."-New Scientist
“The story of time and its machines is long, but indisputably interesting. [Barnett's book ]. . . is entertaining and worth a few hours' reading time."-The San Diego Union-Tribune
“The story of time and its machines is long, but indisputably interesting. [Barnett's book ]. . . is entertaining and worth a few hours' reading time."-The San Diego Union-Tribune
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