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Selling the true time: Nineteenth-century timekeeping in America (2000)

Bartky, Ian R. (Author)

Stanford University Press

Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xvi + 310 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

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Clocks and Watches Technology Time measurement Time measuring instruments 19th century Americas

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Review Waff, Craig B. (2002) Review of "Selling the true time: Nineteenth-century timekeeping in America". Journal for the History of Astronomy (p. 398). unapi

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