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Le problème de l'heure à l'Exposition de l'Union astronomique internationale.
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- Besançon, Imprimerie Millot Frères, 1936.
- 1936
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 72-1247 Offsite John Arnold & Son, chronometer makers, 1762-1843; with an introduction by Anthony Randall.
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- London, Antiquarian Horological Society, 1972.
- 1972
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An account of the improvements in chronometers, watches and clocks, by E. T. Loseby ... with his efforts to obtain official recognition for the same. Compiled from letters and official documents by J. J. Farmer.
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- Coventry, Iliffe [191-?]
- 1910-1919
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 76-913 Offsite Account of improvements in chronometers, made by John Sweetman Eiffe ... With an appendix, containing Robert Molyneux's specification of a patent for improvements in chronometers. London, J. Murray, 1842.
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- [Leipzig, Zentralantiquariat der DDR, 1976.
- 1976-1842
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 78-573 Offsite Exhibition of marine chronometers, July 19th - August 2nd 1972.
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- London, [1972]
- 1972
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 79-377 Offsite Quand l'art de naviguer devenait science : les chronometres de marine fran̨cais au XVIIIe siècle / Jean Le Bot.
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- Grenoble : Terre et mer, 1983.
- 1983
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSG 86-39 Offsite The life and letters of Edward John Dent, chronometer maker, and some account of his successors / by Vaudrey Mercer ; with an introduction by Daniel Patrick Buckney.
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- London : Antiquarian Horological Society, 1977.
- 1977
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 87-1112 Offsite Nuovo metodo di misurare le più minute frazioni del tempo imaginato dal Signor ab. dottor dal Negro.
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- Padova : Per Bettoni e co., 1816.
- 1816
- 1 Item
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The Time Museum catalogue of chronometers / by Anthony G. Randall ; with illustrations by David Penney ; general editor, Bruce Chandler.
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- Rockford., Ill. : Time Museum, 1992.
- 1992
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSF 94-335 Offsite Not available - In use until 2024-01-26 - Please for assistance.It was all a matter of time / by Thomas Tooth.
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- Katoomba, NSW : T.E. Tooth, c1992.
- 1992
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JSD 96-4 Offsite Traité des horloges marines, contenant la théorie, la construction, la main-d'oeuvre de ces machines, et la maniere de les éprouver, pour parvenir, par leur moyen, a la rectification des cartes marines, et a la détermination des longitudes en mer; avec figures en taille-douce. Par m. Ferdinand Berthoud.
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- Paris, J.B.G. Musier fils, 1773.
- 1773
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Berthoud, F. Traité des horloges marines) Offsite Voyage fait par ordre du roi en 1768 et 1769, à différentes parties du monde, pour éprouver en mer les horloges marines inventées par M. Ferdinand Berthoud ... Publié par ordre du roi. Par M. d'Eveux de Fleurieu ...
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- Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1773.
- 1773
- 2 Items
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Fleurieu, C. P. C. de. Voyage fait) v. 1 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Fleurieu, C. P. C. de. Voyage fait) v. 2 Offsite The marine chronometer, its history and development [by] Rubert T. Gould. With a foreword by Frank W. Dyson
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- London Holland Press 1960
- 1960-1923
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Gould, R. T. Marine chronometer) Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Gould, R. T. Marine chronometer) Offsite Der chronometergang, wirkungsweise und arten des ganges, seine geschichtliche entwicklung, die konstruktion desselben und ihre grundlage; ausführung, behandlung und berechnung des ganges; mit 26 originalzeichnungen im text und auf zwei tafeln, von regierungsrat prof. Alois Irk.
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- Berlin, Deutsche uhrmacher-zeitung, 1923.
- 1923
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Irk, A. Chronometergang) Offsite Divers methods for ascertaining at sea without nautical observations : the exact gain and loss of time of chronometers; according to the mean time of the place under Meridian of which they were set, and by these means to ascertain the true longitude / by Le Duc Duhamel.
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- London : The author ; sold by Bossange, Barthés, and Lowell [1840]
- 1840
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Le Duc Duhamel. Divers methods) Offsite John Harrison: the man who found longitude; with a foreword by Sir Richard Woolley.
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- London, Baker, 1966.
- 1966
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Quill, H. John Harrison) Offsite Notes on the management of chronometers and the measurement of meridian distances. By Charles F.A. Shadwell.
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- London, J.D. Potter, 1861.
- 1861
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Shadwell, C. F. A. Notes on the management of chronometers) Offsite A method for rating chronomters by lunars : containing a few practical hints on lunars, on the best means of employing the results, and on the state of the sextant used for measuring the distance / by Henry Toynbee.
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- London : Charles Wilson, 1856.
- 1856
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Toynbee, H. Method for Rating Chronomters by Lunars) Offsite Les chronomètres de marine / par E. Caspari.
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- Paris : Gauthier-Villars et fils : G. Masson, [between 1890 and 1900?]
- 1890-1900
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFD (Caspari Chritien, E. Chronomètres de marine) Offsite La détermination des longitudes et l'histoire des chronomètres.
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- [Méru (Oise) J. Brárd & Bezançon] 1910.
- 1910-1910
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFB (Mascart, J. M. Détermination des longitudes et l'histoire des chronomètres) Offsite Formulæ for finding the longitude by chronometers or time-keepers, with rules for working the observations. By J.W. Norie ...
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- London, J.W. Norie and Co., 1819.
- 1819
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXFB (Norie, J. W. Formulæ for finding the longitude by chronometers or time-keepers) Offsite Memoirs of a trait in the character of George III. of these united kingdoms; authenticated by official papers and private letters in possession of the author: with an appendix of illustrative tracts, &c.; abridged from the original work in manuscript. By Johan Horrins, gent. [pseud.]
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- London, W. Edwards, 1835.
- 1835
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Check with Staff Not available - Please for assistance.Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYM (Harrison, J. Memoirs of a trait in the character of George III.) Offsite Horology : the science of time measurement and the construction of clocks, watches and chronometers / by J. Eric Haswell ; with supplement.
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- London : Chapman and Hall, 1947.
- 1947
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYM (Haswell, J. E. Horology. 1947) Offsite Horology; the science of time measurement and the construction of clocks, watches and chronometers, by J. Eric Haswell ...
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- London, Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1937.
- 1937
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYM (Haswell, J. E. Horology. 1937) 1937 Offsite Congrès National de Chronométrie : tenu a l'Observatoire de Paris du 22 au 27 Octobre 1923.
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- Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 1926.
- 1926
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYB (Congres National de Chronometrie, Paris, 1923. Congres National de Chronometrie) Offsite Descriptive catalogue of the collection illustrating time measurement, by F. A. B. Ward.
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- London, H.M.S.O., 1966 [i.e. 1967]
- 1967
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYD (London. Science Museum. Descriptive catalogue of the collection illustrating time measurement) Offsite Handbook of the collections illustrating time measurement, by F. A. B. Ward.
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- London, H. M. Stationary Office, 1936-
- 1936-present
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYD (London. Science museum. Handbook of the collections illustrating time measurement) pt. 2 (1937) Offsite Handbook of the collections illustrating time measurement. Part II, Descriptive catalogue / by F.A.B. Ward.
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- London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1950.
- 1950
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYD (London. Science museum. Handbook of the collections illustrating time measurement. 1950) Offsite Actes du Congrès international de chronométrie : Genève, 26-29 août 1949.
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- Lausanne : Journal suisse d'horlogerie et de bijouterie, [1949]
- 1949
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYK (Congres International de Chronometrie. Actes du Congres international de chronometrie) Offsite Horlogerie et chronométrie, par Jules Andrade. Avec le patronage de la Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale et de la Société des ingénieurs civils de France.
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- Paris, J.B. Baillière et fils, 1924.
- 1924
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYM (Andrade, J. F. C. Horlogerie et chronometrie) (1924) Offsite Le Spiral réglant et le balancier depuis Huggens jusqu'à nos jours.
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- Lausanne : Ed. du Journal Suise d'Horlogerie, 1945.
- 1945
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYM (Ditisheim, P. Spiral reglant et le balancier depuis Huygens jusqu'a nos jours) Offsite L'électricité et ses applications a la chronométrie.
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- Neuchatel, 1924.
- 1924
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OYM (Favarger, A. J. Électricité et ses applications à la chronométrie) Offsite Regulativ für die Prüfung von Präzisions-Taschenuhren durch die Abth. IV der Deutschen Seewarte (Chronometer-Prüfungs-Institut).
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- Hamburg, 1899.
- 1899
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OMX p.v. 27, no. 1 no. 1-13 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Anweisung zur Führung des Tagebuches für zwei Chronometer.
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- Altona, Hammerich & Lesser, 1907.
- 1907
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OAI p.v. 54, no. 1 no. 1-27 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Remarks on a pamphlet lately published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne under the authority of the Board of Longitude / by John Harrison.
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- London : Printed for W. Sandby, 1767.
- 1767
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History of the invention by John Harrison of the marine chronometer ...
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- [Englewood, N.J., Press Print, 190-]
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A narrative of the proceedings relative to the discovery of the longitude at sea, by Mr. John Harrison's time-keeper : subsequent to those published in the year 1763.
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- London : Printed for the author, and sold by Mr. Sandby ..., 1765.
- 1765
New method of correcting lunar distances, and improved method of finding the error and rate of a chronometer by equal altitudes ...
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- Washington : Bureau of Navigation, 1864.
- 1864-
Mémoire sur l'emploi des chronomètres à la mer et sur les principales observations de l'astronomie nautique / rédigé ... par A.P. Givry.
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- Paris : Imprimerie royale, 1846.
- 1846
Recherches sur l'emploi des chronomètres à la mer.
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- Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1874.
- 1874
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text VXC p.v. 114 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
John Harrison and his timekeepers.
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- [London? 1935]
- 1935
Time under sail : the very human story of the marine chronometer / A. N. Thomas Varzeliotis.
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- Victoria, B.C. : Alcyone Books, 1998.
- 1998
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Watch and chronometer trials.
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- London : H.M.S.O.
- 19-
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text OY (National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Eng. Watch and chronometer trials) 1904 Offsite The longitude prize / Joan Dash, pictures by Dusan Petricic.
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- Basel ; New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2000.
- 2000
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 01-12610 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Specifications governing purchase of chronometers [microform].
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- Washington, D.C. : [s.n.], 1901-1903.
- 1901-1903
Beobachtungsuhren = Deck watches = Chronomètres de bord / Norbert Eder.
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- München : Callwey, c1987.
- 1987
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 11-17504 Offsite Measuring time with artifacts : a history of methods in American archaeology / R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien.
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- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.
- 2006
- 1 Item
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Repsolʹdov krug ; Khronometry ; Khronometricheska︠i︡a ėkspedi︠t︡sī︠i︡a 1859 g. / P. Smyslova.
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- S.-Peterburg : Tip. Imp. Akademīi nauk, 1863.
- 1863
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QH+ (Smyslov, P. Repsoldov krug) Offsite Auf dem Weg zum "Deutschen Chronometer" : die Einführung von Präzisionszeitmessern bei der deutschen Handels- und Kriegsmarine bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg / Günther Oestmann.
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- Bremen : Verlag H. M. Hauschild, c2012.
- 2012
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text ReCAP 14-8569 Offsite
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