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Into the whirlwind / by Camden, Elizabeth,1965-(CARDINAL)340446;
"After a fire destroys Chicago, Mollie is desperate to save her business. With everything at risk--including her heart--can she rise from the rubble?"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Women-owned business enterprises; Clock and watch industry; Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871;
Available copies: 12 / Total copies: 13
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Into the whirlwind [sound recording] : a novel / by Camden, Elizabeth,1948-; Hallett, Morgan.nrt; Recorded Books, LLC.(CARDINAL)561790;
Narrated by Morgan Hallett.After a fire destroys Chicago, Mollie is desperate to save her business. With everything at risk--including her heart--can she rise from the rubble?
Subjects: Christian fiction.; Audiobooks.; Love stories.; Clock and watch industry; Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871; Women-owned business enterprises;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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History of the American clock business for the past sixty years, and life of Chauncey Jerome, written by himself. / by Jerome, Chauncey,1793-1868.(CARDINAL)350546; Barr, Lockwood,1883-(CARDINAL)180406;
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Jerome, Chauncey, 1793-1868.; Jerome Manufacturing Company.; Clock and watch making; Clock and watch industry; Clock and watch makers; Businesspeople; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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1992 census of manufactures. by United States.Bureau of the Census.(CARDINAL)171405;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Medical instruments and apparatus industry; Photographic industry; Clock and watch making;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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1987 census of manufactures. by United States.Bureau of the Census.(CARDINAL)171405;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Medical instruments and apparatus industry; Photographic industry; Clock and watch making;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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Pennsylvania clocks and clockmakers; an epic of early American science, industry, and craftsmanship. by Eckhardt, George H.(CARDINAL)180317;
Subjects: Clocks and watches.; Clock and watch makers; Old State Library Collection.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
On-line resources: Suggest title for digitization;
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The clock / by Duffy, Trent.(CARDINAL)378167; Welles, Toby.(CARDINAL)702660;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Clocks and watches.; Time measurements.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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1000 design classics / by Lee, Josh,editor.(CARDINAL)862237; Phaidon Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)196256;
Accessories -- Cameras -- Clocks and watches -- Electronics -- Furniture -- Glassware -- Household items/homeware -- Kitchenware -- Lighting -- Luggage - - Music/audio -- Packaging -- Sport -- Stationeryand office accessories -- Tableware -- Telephones -- Tools -- Toys and games -- Transport -- Utilities.Originating from the highly acclaimed and groundbreaking three-volume Phaidon Design Classics, this book presents 1,000 of the world's greatest objects in one large-format volume - from everyday items by anonymous creators to lauded pieces by the likes of Charles and Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Dieter Rams, Richard Sapper, Hans J. Wegner, and Florence Knoll.
Subjects: Design; Industrial design;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The radium girls [sound recording] : the dark story of America's shining women / by Moore, Kate(Writer and editor),author.(CARDINAL)340495; Brazil, Angela(Angela Kay),narrator.(CARDINAL)344791;
Read by Angela Brazil.In 1917, as a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks, and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous. The girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and crippling illnesses. The very thing that had made them feel alive, their work, was in fact slowly killing them: they had been poisoned by the radium paint. Yet their employers denied all responsibility. And so, in the face of unimaginable suffering, in the face of death, these courageous women refused to accept their fate quietly, and instead became determined to fight for justice.Compact discs.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Watch dial painters; Radium paint; Consumers' leagues; Industrial hygiene; World War, 1914-1918; World War, 1914-1918;
Available copies: 11 / Total copies: 13
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A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch / by Perman, Stacy.(CARDINAL)469130;
Includes bibliographical references and index."New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman chronicles the thrilling pursuit between two ambitious men in the early 1900s to possess the most complicated timepiece in history. In 1999, at a monumental auction held at Sotheby's in New York City, an eighteen-carat gold pocket watch delivered in 1933 shattered all known records when it was sold for $11 million. Secretly commissioned by the wealthy financier Henry Graves, Jr., the timepiece contained twenty-four "complications," including a celestial chart over Manhattan. Considered the Mona Lisa of timepieces, it had been the coveted victor in a collecting duel that spanned three decades. In A Grand Complication, Stacy Perman takes us back to the early twentieth century to tell the incredible story ofhorological rivals: Wall Street and high society figure Henry Graves, Jr., and James Ward Packard, the brilliant inventor and automobile tycoon behind the elegant Packard Motorcar. These archetypes of American success went head to head, driving the finest watchmakers to push the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, and technology, all to win a personal race against time. With fascinating historical details that recreate the rich lives of these players and their families, Perman transportsus from the clubby world of New York high society to the birth of the American auto industry and its apogee of style in the Packard line, and into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers. Theirs is the story of consuming passion, money-fueled epochs and economic collapse, the obsessive world of watches, and how it influenced the expression of wealth and luxury through gadgets and toys that have become symbols of status"--"The race between two ambitious, complicated men in the early 1900s to create the most extravagant, complicated timepiece ever"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Packard, James Ward, 1863-1928.; Graves, Henry, 1868-1953.; Pocket watches; Clocks and watches; Industrialists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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