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Struthers, Rebecca

Summary: 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 STR

Orzel, Chad

Summary: "Sharp and engaging, A Brief History of Timekeeping is a story not just about the science of sundials, sandglasses, and mechanical clocks, but also the politics of calendars and time zones, the philosophy of measurement, and the nature of space and time itself"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: BenBella Books, Inc. 2022

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Drepperd, Carl W

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: C. T. Branford 1958

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 DREPP

Baillie, G. H. (Granville Hugh)

Summary: A historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past in England and abroad containing a list of nearly fourteen thousand makers.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bonanza 1956

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 BAI

Rooney, David

Summary: "A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.1 ROO

Swedberg, Robert W.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wallace-Homestead Book Co. 1989

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 681.113 SWE

Konishi, Noriyuki

Summary: Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai of all shapes and forms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015

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Konishi, Noriyuki

Summary: Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai of all shapes and forms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KON

Konishi, Noriyuki

Summary: Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai of all shapes and forms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KON

Borden, Louise.

Summary: This is the story of John Harrison, an Englishman, who worked timelesslly for more than forty years to create a perfect sea clock.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2004

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Numbers Borden

Konishi, Noriyuki

Summary: Nate Adams is just an average kid until the mysterious Whisper gives him the Yo-kai Watch, which allows him to see Yo-kai of all shapes and forms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 KON

Keller, Shana

Summary: "Benjamin Banneker is known and admired for his work in science, mathematics, and astronomy. He was born free at a time in America, 1731, when most African Americans were slaves. At the age of 22 he built a strike clock based on his own drawings and using a pocket-knife"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BAN

James, Tania

Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JAM

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