On Time: How America Has Learned to Live Life by the Clock
by Carlene E. Stephens
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- On Time: How America Has Learned to Live Life by the Clock
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- Carlene E. Stephens
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- Bulfinch (2002), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 256 pages
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Packed with illustrations and colourful anecdotes, this work provides an illustrated history of the ways Americans have measured, used, and thought about time over the past 300 years. 'On Time' is a lively history for all ages.Tags
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Carlene E. Stephens is curator in the History of Technology Division, national Museum of American History, Behring Center, Smithsonian Institution. She lives in Washington, D.C.
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Technology, Science & Nature
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- 681.1 — Technology Manufacture for specific uses Precision instruments and other devices Instruments for measuring time, counting and calculating machines and instruments
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- TS541.U6 S74 — Technology Manufacturing engineering. Mass production Manufactures Metal manufactures. Metalworking
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- English
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