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The Modern Clock: A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation, and Repair (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The rapid increase in the dissemination of standard time and the compulsory use of watches having a maxi mum variation of five seconds a week by railway employes has so increased the standard of accuracy demanded by the general. Public that it is no longer possible to make careless work go with them, and, if they accept it at all, they are apt to make serious deductions from their estimate of the watchmaker's skill and immediately transfer their cus tom to some one who is more thorough.
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The rapid increase in the dissemination of standard time and the compulsory use of watches having a maxi mum variation of five seconds a week by railway employes has so increased the standard of accuracy demanded by the general. Public that it is no longer possible to make careless work go with them, and, if they accept it at all, they are apt to make serious deductions from their estimate of the watchmaker's skill and immediately transfer their cus tom to some one who is more thorough.
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 date2018
- ISBN 10 1334203318
- ISBN 13 9781334203312
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- Number of pages536
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