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Includes typewritten letters, photographs, copy drawing of La Place Royals de Dijon, Guide to Dijon booklet, Promenade a travers Dijon booklet, and a typescript of an article "The Jacquemart Clock of Dijon". Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding inclusion of the article in the journal.

Includes one letter and envelope. NB. the clock had been destroyed in 1945 in an air raid on Wuerzburg and Heidingsfeld.

Two typewritten letters only. The description and postcard of the clock refered to in the letter are not included in the file.

Includes letters, five photographs and photographic postcards, two typescript copies of John W. Castle's article "The astronomical clock of Lyon", a copy of an article from La Nature (1895) on "L'Horloge Astronomique de Lyon", copy drawings and typescript article (in French) on the astrolabe of Lyon. Also includes handwritten letter from the AHS regarding the publication of the article.

Also includes press cuttings from Newnes Practical Mechanica on orrery, planetarium and timing and delay mechanisms.

Four drawings, including the "stackfreed" and "mainspring barrel and fusee".

Includes typewritten letters, one photographic postcard and envelope. Also includes letter from Loughborough library, confirming that the Loughborough Carillion Tower is a replica of the Moulin tower.

Includes typewritten letters and a brochure titled Das Münchner Rathaus und sein Glockenspiel.

Includes two typewritten letters and envelope.

Includes typewritten letters, extracts from journal articles, and nine photographs and drawings. Also includes letter from Instituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, Italy.

Includes typewritten letter, a newspaper cutting with an article on the restoration of the tower, its English translations (handwritten and typed), and a photograph.

This collection comprises research papers compiled by Robert Miles in the course of his study of the history of the Synchronome company, which resulted in the publication of his book, Synchronome: Masters of Electrical Timekeeping (2011 and 2019). They include copies of primary and secondary sources from the nineteenth century onwards (including papers and articles by F. Hope-Jones), subject files, clock lists, photographs, slides and digital records.

Includes handwritten list of Isle of Wight clockmakers 1875–79; scrap notes referring to clockmakers from earlier dates; typescript list of local street and trade directories; 1987 Strike One antique clocks and barometers catalogue brochure (featuring a chronometer by IoW maker Simpson Benzie Cowes); and E.J. Tyler's correspondence with the IoW County Council archivist regarding "Shorto" verge watch owned by William Chiddy.

Includes note on sources and abbreviations. Names include Nicholas Kratzer, Anthony Crasillon, Sebastian (Bastian) Lesseney (Lesney / Le Sene) , Nicholas Urseau, Peter Dellamere, Bartholomew Newsam, Randolph Bull and others.

Names include mainly Thomas Herbert, but also Mansell Bennett, Thomas Tompion and Joseph Antram.

Includes newspaper cuttings about clock and watch sales.

Includes signed typescript of L. Northcote's review of Clockmaking in Oxfordshire 1400-1850 by C.F.C. Beeson (1962); typescript of "Electronics in Timekeeping", a lecture given to the Electrical Horology Group by J.D. Weaver at the Science Museum (6 Dec 1975); typescript of an article on "The Watchmaker's Guild of Copenhagen" (n.d.), and handwritten notes and comments on the Flamsteed / Towneley correspondence and Towneley's pallets as revised by Tompion.

Handwritten copy. Also includes a provisional list of Reading clockmakers.

This series contains prints of Northcote's map of Oxfordshire and an auction catalogue.

This collection comprises Philip Thornton’s reports, notes, sketches and tracings which document the repairs and restorations of mainly bracket clocks, carried out by him primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, with a few later instances. Most papers record the date of restoration and the name of the client. The files vary in size and content from single pieces of scrap paper to more comprehensive bundles containing condition reports and detailed large-format drawings. Many of the papers are in very fragile condition.

This collection comprises Philip Thornton’s reports, notes, sketches and tracings which document the repairs and restorations of mainly bracket clocks, carried out by him primarily in the 1930s and 1940s, with a few later instances. Most papers record the date of restoration and the name of the client. The files vary in size and content from single pieces of scrap paper to more comprehensive bundles containing condition reports and detailed large-format drawings. Many of the papers are in very fragile condition.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains typewritten description, handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains one tracing of backplate only.

Contains typewritten description, annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings.

Contains tracings of plate only.

Contains handwritten note and tracings.

Contains two tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and sketches.

Contains annotated sketches and tracings. Annotated "see photos" but no photographs are included in the file.

Contains one sheet of notes with tracings.

Contains handwritten report, notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains tracings and annotated sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains one tracing only.

Contains handwritten notes and sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes and sketches.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches and tracings.

Contains tracings only. No original number. Inserted between files 68 and 69.

Contains handwritten notes, sketches, tracings and a b/w photograph. No original number. Inserted next to file 26.

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.

Typescript. Also includes related postcards, negatives, exhibition catalogues, captioned photographs of exhibits; and "Gothic Clocks", a bound article by H. Alan Lloyd from "The Antique Collector" (June 1962).

Typescript and printed. Also includes 3 b/w photographs.

Typescript and handwritten.

Typescript.

Handwritten. Also includes one colour photograph and sketches.

Handwritten and typescript. Also includes photographs of a clock in a painting by Pontorno, and of the market square in Haarlem.

Typescript.

Handwritten. Includes: Deutsches Museum Munich, Bayerische Nationalmuseum Munich, Leiden Museum, Swiss museums and private collections (1957), Amsterdam 'Het Atoom' (1957), AHS German Tour 1959, AHS Austrian Tour 1961, and AHS Swiss-Italian Tour 1963.

Printed and typescript, some handwritten.

Mostly typescript, one handwritten. Lectures include "Physics in Time Measurement"; "Bells and Bell Founding" by Douglas Hughes; "Captain Cook's Timekeepers" and "The Clocks of Greenwich Observatory 1675–1930" by Lt. Cdr. H. D. Howse; and two untitled ones. Also includes a description of sidereal clock made by John Shelton.

Photocopy typescripts.

Printed and typescript.

Handwritten. Also includes a typescript letter from the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, regarding Dr Ward's request for a photograph (not included), and the Museum's postcard showing a Roman vertical disc dial c.250 AD.

Typescript.

Printed.

8 b/w photographs, captioned. Includes Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Technical Museum, Österreichisches Museum für Angewndte Kunst, Hans von Bertele Collection and Sobeck Collection. Also includes a page from "Deutsche Uhrmacher Zeitschrift" (May 1961). Typescript and handwritten

2 b/w photographs. From the Science Museum.

15 b/w photographs. Guests include the Duke of Wellington, Lord Harris, Dr Ward and others. File also includes a bound article on the Wuppertal Clock and Watch Museum by Allan Lloyd, from "The Antique Collector" (Oct 1966).

Printed. Lot 115 in the auction of fine watches, clocks and scientific instruments on 4 October 1977.

1 b/w photograph and 1 colour postcard. Also includes Dr Moore's letter to Musée du Château de Blois, with request for a photographic copy of another painting (photo not included).

9 b/w captioned photographs and 4 postcards. Also includes handwritten notes.

2 b/w photographs. Originally in an envelope labelled "Two photos from B. Bopp".

2 b/w photographs, captioned.

6 b/w photographs, captioned.

Large folder of booklets, articles, patents, circulars, notes, photographs, transparency slides and related correspondence.

Photocopy of the English translation of an article originally published in French in vol. 20 no. 21 of Les Comptes Rendus (May 1845). Translation published in Electrical Magazine vol. 2.

Bound photocopies of articles published in English Mechanic and World of Science.

Photocopy of two news pages, including articles on "Honors for the Trade", "Casket for the American Ambassador" and "The Silver Market".

Original Royal Society of Arts publication of six lectures delivered before the Society in January and February 1908.

Photocopies of nine articles published in the Proceedings of The Institution of Electrical Engineers between 1915 and 1962. Includes cover letter, dated 20 Mar 1970, from the Institute to C. K. Aked, with a list of eleven articles on the topic of electrical horology. All in envelope postmarked 24 May 1971.

Photocopy of a fragment of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 4 no. 3).

Photocopy of an article published in Journal of the Royal Naval Scientific Service (vol. 11 no. 6).

Copy of an article published in Mat. Med. Nordm. vol 23.

Delivered at a Northern Section meeting on 11th May. Copy of an article published in Antiquarian Horology.

Photocopy, pasted into a notebook, of an article published in The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society vol. 28.

Photocopy of an obituary of the British scientist, inventor and collector Edward Hall (1924–2001), published in The Times. File also includes photographs of clock movements and a comparison sheet between four Smiths Quartz Movements.

Handwritten volume, compiled by A. Shenton, arranged chronologically. Includes authors' names with occasional biographical notes, publications and sources.

Two originals torn out of Jeweller and Metalworker (January 1951 and March 1952) and two photocopies from Jewellers Journal Book of Recipes (n.d., nineteenth century).

Includes Ray-o-Vac, Duracell, Seiko, Renata, Exide, etc. Most undated. Includes an article from an unidentified publication, in French and English, on watch batteries, no. 403 of Southern Watch and Clock Supplies Ltd News, and a photocopy of the United States Patent Office patent for alkaline dry cell (1951).

Also includes press release regarding sale of Important Clocks and Watches (n.d.).

Eight pages. Includes information about a silver pair-cased watch from 1789 and three pedometers.

Includes related correspondence.

Bound copies of extracts from Horological Journal.

Held at the School of Horology, Blanchardstown, Dublin, on 14 Dec 1976 to mark the bicentenary of the death of John Harrison. Signed by W. Stuart.