Author: Stan Bray Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1607657309 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
· An introductory guide to horology for beginners · Explains terms, general forms of clock construction, tools, materials, and methods · Learn the layout and creation of wheels, escapements, pinions, pendulums, and more · With expert advice, know the best ways to make specialized items
Author: Stan Bray Publisher: Workshop Practice ISBN: 9781854862143 Category : Clock and watch making Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Stan Bray introduces the fascinating world of horology to the complete beginner. This book explains the terminology of the clockmaker and provides general details of clock construction including layout of wheels and escarpments, a number of the latter being described. Making of wheels, pinions, escarpments, plates, pendulums, weights, cases, hands and faces is described. The necessary tools and equipment are described with details of how to make specialized items and choice of most suitable materials for their construction.
Author: Malcolm Wild Publisher: The Crowood Press ISBN: 0719843618 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 731
Book Description
Many clock repairers carry out excellent work but avoid cutting their own wheels and pinions, fearing it is too complicated and involved. This book, written by an experienced clock and tool maker, dispels those fears and gives a step-by-step guide to an extremely satisfying aspect of horology. This book is written for both the amateur and professional involved in the making and restoring of clocks, and for anyone who intends to start building up a workshop and requires a guide to the equipment and how to use it.
Author: Editors of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1607658976 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
Making a piece of wood move is fun, but making it tell time is truly amazing! Inside this book, you’ll find ingenious plans for creating awesome wooden machines that actually move and keep time. These working wooden wonders might just be the most enjoyable projects you ever build in your shop. Wooden gear clocks are not only fascinating to watch, but can be surprisingly accurate timepieces. Just don’t expect atomic precision—after all, they’re modeled on 17th-century technology! But as you build these scroll saw clocks you’ll use all of the basic principles that still govern mechanical clocks today. Six well-illustrated step-by-step scroll saw projects are arranged by skill level from beginner to advanced, and full-sized scroll saw patterns are attached to the book in a handy pouch. With a little perseverance, you’ll soon be ticking along happily with your own wooden clockworks. All you have to do is build them, wind them up, and let them run—no batteries required.
Author: Peter Heimann Publisher: Specialist Interest Model Books Limited ISBN: 9781854862495 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Regulator Clock Construction describes the building of two different clock projects: an eight day regulator clock and a month going regulator clock and features full working drawings supported by detailed photographs and line drawings.
Author: W. J. Gazeley Publisher: ISBN: 9780709047384 Category : Clocks and watches Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This book includes detailed instructions for making all types of escapements and for the location and correction of faults. The book is designed to appeal to those interested in the mechanisms of clocks and watches.
Author: Les Oldridge Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1607657279 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 193
Book Description
· For apprentices and amateur metalworkers · A hands-on guide to engineering benchwork covering all the basics · Learn the skills and procedures for files, punches, hand filers, and more · Contains helpful diagrams, tables, and black and white photos · Begin a career in metalwork engineering and know the proper practices early on to avoid common mistakes
Author: John A. Nelson Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing ISBN: 1607655365 Category : Crafts & Hobbies Languages : en Pages : 333
Book Description
Plans for making 37 traditional, Shaker and contemporary clocks. Designs include grandfather clocks, mantel clocks, and desk clocks. Step-by-step photo tutorial for making a Shaker coffin-style clock. Projects include a color photo of the finished clock, measured drawings, and cut lists. Includes chapters on the history of clock making, clock components, and clock making basics.
Author: Philip Steadman Publisher: UCL Press ISBN: 1787359158 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
Renaissance Fun is about the technology of Renaissance entertainments in stage machinery and theatrical special effects; in gardens and fountains; and in the automata and self-playing musical instruments that were installed in garden grottoes. How did the machines behind these shows work? How exactly were chariots filled with singers let down onto the stage? How were flaming dragons made to fly across the sky? How were seas created on stage? How did mechanical birds imitate real birdsong? What was ‘artificial music’, three centuries before Edison and the phonograph? How could pipe organs be driven and made to play themselves by waterpower alone? And who were the architects, engineers, and craftsmen who created these wonders? All these questions are answered. At the end of the book we visit the lost ‘garden of marvels’ at Pratolino with its many grottoes, automata and water jokes; and we attend the performance of Mercury and Mars in Parma in 1628, with its spectacular stage effects and its music by Claudio Monteverdi – one of the places where opera was born. Renaissance Fun is offered as an entertainment in itself. But behind the show is a more serious scholarly argument, centred on the enormous influence of two ancient writers on these subjects, Vitruvius and Hero. Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture were widely studied by Renaissance theatre designers. Hero of Alexandria wrote the Pneumatics, a collection of designs for surprising and entertaining devices that were the models for sixteenth and seventeenth century automata. A second book by Hero On Automata-Making – much less well known, then and now – describes two miniature theatres that presented plays without human intervention. One of these, it is argued, provided the model for the type of proscenium theatre introduced from the mid-sixteenth century, the generic design which is still built today. As the influence of Vitruvius waned, the influence of Hero grew.
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