The clock
By: Trent Duffy ; foldout illustrations by Toby Welles
Series: Turning point inventions
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9780689828140
Subjects: Time measurements; Clocks and watches
Description: A history of time measurement, including a short biography of John Harrison, inventor of the chronometric clock, and the effect of the clock on the Industrial Revolution.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 78) and index.