Abstract
MR. OVERTON has given us a most useful and interesting volume, describing the gradual evolution of timepieces from the early water clocks, through the balance clock, down to the modern pendulum clocks and chronometers. There are many illustrations, and the various methods of compensating for temperature are described in plain non-technical language. In addition there are details, probably new to many readers, relating to the striking mechanism of clocks and of repeater watches. The latter are stated to have come to an end when the introduction of lucifer matches made it easy to read an ordinary watch at night. There is a chapter dealing with the artistic side of the subject, and describing several clocks and watches of special interest and beauty. It is altogether a book that will appeal to the general reader quite as much as to those specially interested in time-determination.
Clocks and Watches.
G. L.
Overton
By. (Pitman's Common Commodities and Industries Series.) Pp. ix + 127. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1922.) 3s. net.
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C., A. Clocks and Watches . Nature 111, 77–78 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111077e0
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