Collection of Watches Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the City of New York (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
Excerpt from Collection of Watches Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the City of New York The first portable time-keepers were made in Nuremburg and were due to the ingenuity and skill of one Peter Henlein or Hele, who lived between 1480 and 1542. His invention, which originated shortly after 1500, employed a long steel ribbon tightly coiled around a central spindle to maintain the motion of the wheels. These portable time-keepers did not come into general use for a long time, but were reserved for wealthy people who showed a fondness for the novelty, which at first took the form of table-clocks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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- Publication date2024
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- ISBN 13 9781334342004
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- Number of pages78
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