Affichage de 1996 résultats

Includes correspondence, journal articles, cutouts and printouts of catalogue listings, brochures, photographs and notes. Also includes an early print of Simon Gribelin's engraving Pope Gregory sending St Augustin to convert the English.

Includes correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, newspaper articles, draft articles, photographs and notes.

Includes correspondence, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, journal articles, draft articles, photographs and notes.

Makers' surnames include: Dent, Edlin / Edlyne, Finch, Gardner, Gerrard, Gordon. The file contains correspondence, photocopies of eighteenth-century newspaper extracts, cutouts and photocopies of catalogue listings, photographs and notes.

This collection comprises material related to the research, writing, laying-out and publishing The Clockmakers of Somerset 1650-1900 and The Clockmakers of Bristol 1650-1900, as well as assorted research papers and ephemera, including but not limited to a collection of photos, copies of deeds, correspondence with owners of clocks including enclosures, and photocopies of archival documents.

The subject files contain correspondence, publications, notes and photographs

Includes handwritten notes with detailed description of "Leroux no. 3153".

Includes catalogues, brochures, historical notes, photographs and related correspondence.

Includes correspondence with the Science Museum and other institutions and individuals; copies of the article on "Some Notes on the History of Machine Watchmaking" by Prof. D.S. Torrens (1947); extracts from sales catalogues; notes and correspondence relating to clockmaking tools, and photographs.

This collection comprises Roger Carrington’s research papers relating to clockmaking and watchmaking in the north of England, and the role of insurance records in researching horological history.

File marked RC13/2. Includes typewritten lists of watches and clocks for sale by various dealers based in York, Liverpool, Lancashire and Cheshire, including Rarities International, Kingsway Galleries, Castle Galleries and Roy James and Co.

File marked RC13/3. Includes correspondence, descriptions, journal articles, photographs and negatives relating to Robin-type escapement (Robert Robin, 1742-1799 was a French clockmaker and inventor of the combined anchor-spring escapement). Also includes a copy of Horlogerie Ancienne (December 1978).

This series contains extracts from eighteenth and nineteenth-century fire insurance policies relating to clockmaking businesses. They were compiled from manuscripts held at the Guildhall Library (now part of The London Archives).

Handwritten extracts from volumes 202–299 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 500–555 of policy register series MS 11936, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–7 of the fire policy register MS 7252, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

Handwritten extracts from volumes 1–36 of the fire policy register MS 7255, including an alphabetical name index and individual policy details.

This series contains alphabetically arranged subject files of correspondence, photographs, drawings, press cuttings and publications relating mainly to remarkable European clocks.

Includes letters, two photographs and a brochure titled Petite Historie d'Aigueperse.

Typewritten and published. Includes "It's about time" (talk with slide list), "An 18th century whimsy", "Some old clocks of West Country", "The Tower of Babel" (Antiquarian Horology December 1953), related correspondence, and an article "How the Chinese invented the mechanical clock" by Joseph Needham (The New Scientist December 1958).

Includes letters, a typewritten extract from La Cathedrale de Beauvais by V. Leblond, and a photographic postcard.

Includes letter and a photographic postcard.

Includes letters, a typewritten article, an illustration of the clock, and three photographs.

Includes nine photographs, two postcards, one printed drawing and two negatives of clocks from Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle; Musée du Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers in Paris; a sixteenth-century automatic clock in the shape of a ship from a private collection, and some of unidentified origin.

Includes three photographs of the Dondi Clock and article from Horological Journal (June 1961), and a brochure titles Globes and Spheres by H. von Bertele.

Includes typewritten letters in German, with English translations.

Includes letters, three photographs and photographic postcards, a typewritten article "Uber die Kunstuhr am Heilbronner Rathaus" and a press cutting from Amtsblatt, a local newspaper, about the restoration of the town hall.

Includes typewritten letters, five photographs, a tourist map of Alsace featuring a photograph of the clock, and typewritten articles on "Kunstuhr in Molsheim" and "Les horloges astronomiques et Monumentales: Molsheim".

Includes typewritten letters, two printed photographs, and a newspaper cutting from Beschaulich Daheim (1933) with an article "Die Kunstuhe an Rathaous zu Plauen".

Includes "The Accutron: the world's first electronic watch" (Horological Journal 1961), typescript of "The watch of to-morrow", list of the Horstmann collection of antique watches, and two photographs.

This collection comprises mostly wristwatch trade literature sent to and collected by Grahame Brooks over an approximately ten-year period from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It includes press releases, product brochures, photographs, slides and CD-Roms, as well as some correspondence.

This collection comprises mainly glass plate and film negatives of early English clocks, clock inscriptions and clockmakers’ portraits, collected by Percy G. Dawson. Many have been used in his books.

This collection comprises research notes on clockmaking in regions of England (Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight) and the Black Forest, possibly assembled by E. John Tyler.

Includes scrap notes on individual makers 1720–1885, and Hampshire Record Office guide to new public areas.

Includes handwritten lists of individuals' names from extracted from various directories 1797–1845; scrap notes, some relating to earlier sources; and related correspondence.

Labelled "I see also II" but part II not present

Contains snapshots and group portraits from Zurich and Bad Attisholz (nine b/w photographs, uncaptioned, loose), five postcards, and two tour programmes and timetables.

This collection comprises Eric Bunt’s handwritten notes on watch and clockmakers from the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, compiled from original documents held at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, and from printed volumes of Calendars of State Papers; handwritten transcripts of eighteenth-century newspaper articles about watch and clock thefts; and Eileen’s Bunt handwritten transcript of Benjamin Gray’s Daybook (original at the Guildhall Library, London).

This series comprises notes and transcripts of fourteenth to eighteenth-century sources relating to clockmaking and watchmaking.

Names include David Ramsay, William Partridge, Edward East, Thomas Tompion and others.

This is a copy of a two-volume list compiled by Francis Buckley and G. B. Buckley, held at the Guildhall Library (ref. CLC/239/MS03338/001-002). Newspapers include The Post Man, The Daily Courant, The Daily Post and General Advertiser, The Daily Journal and London Gazette. The file includes a list of references to lost pieces by Gray and Vulliamy, and references to other lost watches not included in the original volume, some in the hand of Eileen Bunt.

This series contains Lewis S. Northcote's correspondence on horological matters.

Includes typewritten obituary by L. Northcote, with list of work done by Hartley; handwritten notes and drafts for the obituary and the list; T.M. Hartley's outgoing letter book (1949–53); brochure and leaflet on John Smith & Sons (Midland Clock Works Derby Ltd); and related correspondence.

Mostly handwritten. Includes notes, sketches and calculations.

Includes copy correspondence and typescript copies of Electrical Horology Group minutes of 9th October 1970; "List of Works on Electrical Horology" compiled by Charles K. Aked; a list of articles on electrical horology compiled by Anthony Prasil; and a list of members interested in electrical horology, with addresses.

Includes annotated typescript of "The Tompion Clocks at Greenwich and the Dead-beat Escapement" by Derek Howse, an article published in Antiquarian Horology (December 1970); pages from the Horological Journal (October 1962) on Tompion pallets; and Northcote's correspondence with Howse, with notes and sketches.

This series contains notes, typescripts and publications compiled by Lewis S. Northcote, authored both by himself and others.

Printed copy of an article "communicated at Lancaster, 14th September 1933",

Contains sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains notes, tracings, sketches and a typewritten report on the clock's condition and provenance.

Contains letter from "John" and a small sketch.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains tracing of backplate only.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketch.

Contains annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and tracings.

Contains handwritten report, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and tracings.

Contains handwritten note and a sketch scribbled on the back of an envelope dated 22 September 1936. No original number. Inserted between files 65 and 66.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings. Originally numbered "C10" (duplicate number).

41 pages. Includes various clocks (Hampton Court, Berkeley Castle, Houses of Parliament); George Honeybone; Salisbury Cathedral clock; various clocks of Britain, Prague, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark and France; curiosities; two well-known Danish clocks; bracket clocks; long case clocks; eighteenth-century clocks; Greenwich mean time; atomic clock; Honeybone clock; miscellaneous clocks; history of Big Ben, etc.

40 pages. Includes clocks of Scotland; smallest watches; "Negress clock"; astronomical clock of Versailles; Salisbury Cathedral clock; the oldest clock in Paris; clocks of Germany, Holland, Hungary, France, Belgium, Malta, Denmark, Spain and Venice; summer time; clocks of York; Big Ben; concave dial clock at Bristol; grandfather clocks; brochure about the Peace Tower carillon in Ottawa; seventeenth-century clockmakers; Captain Scott's watch; watches in the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers collection; Strasbourg Cathedral clock; clock collection of Mr Hutton-Stott; grandfather clocks; detailed description of the Broadgate "Godiva clock" in Coventry (with original drawings); floral clocks; Lund Cathedral clock, Sweden; Honeybone clocks, etc.

37 pages. Includes candle-lighting clock; "The story of the British watch and clock industry"; Mr Vine's matchstick clock; "Clocks", an article by Sheila Richardson about clocks of Nuremburg, Prague, Strasbourg and Lund; Kienzle watch museum brochure (in German); article on Stanley Humphrey's maintenance of government clocks; the Birdcage Clock; long case clocks; Winchester Empire Clock; John E. Ginson's article on the passing of time; Big Ben; Mr and Mrs Bromley's clock collection at Belper; American clocks; new battery-driven clocks; radiation risk of luminous dials; Crucifix Clock, etc.

37 pages. Includes short history of clocks; floral clocks; Player's Cigarettes cards featuring clocks and other timekeeping devices, with notes; types of devices used for the measurement of time (list with descriptions); "Look and Learn" feature on timekeeping; Breguet watches; Phoenix clock at Westbury; Gamle Ure brochure from the clock museum on Denmark; Chinese clockmaking industry; timing the Olympics [Winter Olympics, Innsbruck]; clock towers of France; "Early provincial clockmakers" by J.K. Bellchambers; The Science Museum Timekeepers booklet; Ferenc Magyar clock and watch collection in Budapest; clock designed for lunar explorers; The Wuppertal clock museum, etc.

Typescript. With Dr Ward as the Honorary Treasurer.

Typescript.

Handwritten, typescript and printed.

Handwritten.

Typescript.

Typescript. Also includes cover letter from The National Trust.

Printed.

Handwritten. Used in Dr Ward's lectures on "Early clocks and clock dials as shown in illuminated manuscripts", given at the Science Museum.

Typescript. Two copies.

Printed. Cassette not included. Issued to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers' charter.

18 b/w captioned photographs and 3 postcards. Includes regulator clocks, pendulum clocks, astronomical clocks, reconstructions of Hugyens' marine clocks, airpumps, apparatus for measuring centrifugal forces, and Christiaan Hugyens portrait. All photographs endorsed 'Copyright Rijksmuseum voor de Geschiedenis der Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden'.

1 b/w photograph. From Ferninandeum Museum Innsbruck. File also includes the original envelope.

3 b/w photographs, captioned, taken by L.S. Northcote and Dr Mercer.

2 copies of b/w photographic postcard, in an envelope dated 14 Dec 1967.

13 b/w photographs, captioned. Also includes original exhibition captions for Martin Bylica's torquetum and Hans Dorn's celestial globe; Dr Ward's article on "The Earliest String-Gnomon Sundials" (reprint from Antiquarian Horology June 1976), and correspondence with Bayeriches Nationalmuseum, Tiroler Landesmuseum Innsbruck, and H. von Bertele. Typescript, printed and handwritten.

2 b/w photographs. "St Jerome with Clock" is based on Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving "St Jerome in His Study"; and "Sir Thomas More and His Descendants" on a copy of a lost 1527 painting by Hans Holbein the Younger.

4 b/w photographs, captioned. Originally in an envelope marked "Science Museum Property".

2 b/w photographs.