Anniversary Clocks
Written by Peter Wotton
Format: Trade Paperback, 56 pages
On Sale: July 21, 2009
Price: $12.95
The mechanical anniversary clock, also known as the 400-day clock or torsion pendulum clock, is one of the most popular clocks ever invented. Anniversary clocks are recognizable by the decorative balls beneath the dial that rotate one way and then the other. To house the attractive mechanism, every style of clock...
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Church Clocks
Written by Hugh Rock
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Price: $12.95
Since the medieval period, mechanical clocks located in churches across Britain have told the time to local communities, or displayed the phases of the moon and the heavens on an elaborate astrological face. During the six-hundred-year history of the mechanical church clock the design of these timepieces changed remarkably little, and...
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