Time restored the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press and the National Maritime Museum,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Childhood 1890-1905
- Navy training 1906-1913
- The war, a breakdown, and marriage 1914-1920
- John Harrison and the marine chronometer
- Research and the first restorations 1920-1922
- The magnum opus 1921-1923
- Horology : the obsession
- H2 is restored 1923-1925
- The sette of odd volumes
- Separation 1925-1927
- Oddities and enigmas 1928-1929
- The case for the sea serpent 1930
- The RAS regulator 1927-1929
- H3 is completed 1929-1931
- H1 the full restoration 1931-1933
- The Loch Ness monster 1933-1934
- The Harrison timekeepers and the NMM 1934-1935
- Professor Stewart, the BBC, and tennis 1936
- Many projects 1936-1937
- Leaving downside, leaving London 1937-1939
- Upper Hurdcott and the brains trust 1940-1945
- Canterbury and a gold medal 1945-1948.