Time's Pendulum From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World

Name: Time's Pendulum From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World
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ISBN: 9780156006491

ISBN-10: 0156006499

ISBN-13: 9780156006491

Edition: 1998

Authors: Jo Ellen Barnett

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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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 3/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English