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• The Old Clock Book (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1911), by N. Hudson Moore (multiple formats at Google)
• Pendule, Spiral, Diapason (2 volumes in French; Paris: Delagrave, 1920-), by H. Bouasse
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Recueil des Procédés Pratiques Usités en Horlogerie: Formant la Deuxième Partie du Guide-Manuel de l'Horloger (in French; Paris: Bureau de la Revue Chronométrique, 1874), by Claudius Saunier
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Catalogue of New York State Loan Exhibit of Embroideries, Miniatures, Watches, Snuff-Boxes, Fans and Laces (New York: The Knickerbocker Press, ca. 1893), by Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago (PDF at OCLC)
• From sundials to atomic clocks : understanding time and frequency (National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Dept. of Commerce] : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by James Jespersen, John Robb, and Jane Fitz-Randolph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'horlogerie depuis son origine jusqu'à nos jours, précédée de recherches sur la mesure du temps dans l'antiquité et suivie de la biographie des horlogers les plus cèlébres de l'Europe (Administration du Moyen age et la renaissance, 1849), by Pierre Dubois (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old English master clockmakers and their clocks, 1670-1820 (Frederick A. Stokes, 1938), by Herbert Cescinsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clock book (Old America company, 1924), by Wallace Nutting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and clocks : a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time. (A. Constable & co., ltd., 1906), by Henry H. Cunynghame (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (Lockwood & co., 1874), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time & timekeepers : including the history, construction, care and accuracy of clocks and watches (The Macmillan company, 1923), by Willis I. Milham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathematique et de mecanique: ou Description du cabinet de monsieur Grollier de Serviere, avec des figures en taille-douce (Chéz David Forey, 1719), by Mr. Grollier de Servière and Étienne Joseph Daudet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horologium oscillatorium; sive, De motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demostrationes geometricae. (F. Muguet, 1966), by Christiaan Huygens (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The perfected American watch ... (American Waltham watch co., 1900), by Waltham Watch Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Josef Georg Böhm: Die kunst-uhren auf der K. K. Sternwarte zu Prag. (C. Bellman, Im selbstverlage der K. K. Sternwarte, 1908), by Joseph Georg Böhm, Johannes Klein, Ladislaus Weinek, and Prague (Czechoslovakia) Universität. Sternwarte (page images at HathiTrust)
• South African trade in watches and clocks (Govt. print. off., 1922), by Perry Judson Stevenson and United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tokei hattatsushi (Tōyō Shuppansha, 1924), by Hyōe Takabayashi (page images at HathiTrust)
• American watches : an extract from the Report on horology at the International Exhibition at Philadelphia, 1876 ... (Robbins & Appleton, 1877), by James C. Watson and Pa.) Centennial Exhibition Philadelphia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Verhalten von Taschenuhren. (Tomas & Hubert, 1913), by Erhard Kleinstück (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Untersuchung über den Gang von Taschenuhren : Inaugural-Dissertation (Thomas & Hubert, 1909), by Karl Gey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über das Verhalten von Pendeluhren : Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Hohen philosophischen Fakultät der Universität Leipzig (Thomas & Herbert, 1911), by Karl Thierig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and its reckoning (Chemical publishing co., inc., 1940), by R. Barnard Way and Noel Dutton Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clock book (Pub. in coöperation with Old America Company by the Garden City Publishing Co., inc., 1935), by Wallace Nutting (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and time-tellers / by James W. Benson. (R. Hardwicke, 1875), by James W. Benson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watch and clockmakers' handbook, dictionary and guide. (Printed by Gilbert and Rivington, 1886), by F. J. Britten (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks, watches & bells for public purposes. (Lockwood, 1903), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Instrumentman 3 & 2. (GPO, 1961), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité pratique de dorure et argenture galvaniques appliquées à l'horlogerie. (Roret, 1855), by A. Olivier Mathey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old clock book (Tudor publishing company, 1936), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical philosophy, horology, and astronomy. (G. Bell and sons, 1877), by William Benjamin Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Measurement of time and tests of timepieces. (Govt. Print. Off., 1914), by United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Testing of timepieces (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1941), by Ralph Edgar Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Testing of timepieces. Issued June 18, 1931. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1931), by Ralph Edgar Gould and United States. National Bureau of Standards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Six Quaker clockmakers (The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1943), by Edward E. Chandlee and Historical Society of Pennsylvania (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horlogerie théorique : cours de mécanique appliquée à la chronométrie (E. Magron ;, 1911), by Jules Grossmann and Hermann Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American clock making : its early history (s.n., 1885), by Henry Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prize-essay ... on the detached lever escapement for watches & timepieces. ... (Leipzig, 1866), by Moritz Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vollständiges Handbuch der Uhrmacherkunst ... (Weimar, 1865), by Emanuel Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur le pendule conique et sur de nouveaux instruments chronométriques, auxquels il est appliqué (C. Borrani, 1860), by Antonin Redier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beschreibung der Hemmungen der höheren Uhrmacher-Kunst. ... (Furtwangen, 1858), by J. H. Martens (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voyage to California : to observe the transit of Venus (E. and C. Dilly, 1778), by abbé Chappe d'Auteroche, William Burke Belknap, Helen Strong Belknap, José Antonio de Alzate y Ramírez, and Jean-Dominique Cassini (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de connaître les pendules et les montres : à l'usage des jeunes horlogers et des gens du monde (Chez l'Auteur, 1849), by Henry Robert and Ferdinand Berthoud (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la mesure du temps, ou Supplément au Traité des horloges marines et a l'Essai sur l'horlogerie; contenant les principes de construction, d'exécution & d'épreuves des petites horloges à longitude. Et l'application des mêmes principes de construction, &c., aux montres de poche, ainsi que plusieurs constructions d'horloges astronomiques, &c., avec figures en taille-douce. (J.G. Mérigot, le jeune [etc.], 1787), by Ferdinand Berthoud (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de conduire et de régler les pendules et les montres : à l'usage de ceux qui n'ont aucune connaissance d'horlogerie : suivie d'une indication des règles, observations et calculs, pour l'usage des montres astronomiques, etc. (Courcier, 1811), by Ferdinand Berthoud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old clock book (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1911), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die Uhren im Bereich des islamischen Kultur (Halle, 1915), by Eilhard Wiedemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschiedenis der openbare tijdaanvijzing (E.J. Brill, 1887), by Frederic Adolph Hoefer (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (C. Lockwood and Co., 1903), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die pendeluhr, Horologium oscillatorium (W. Engelmann, 1913), by Christiaan Huygens, A. v. Oettingen, and A. Heckscher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A satellite-controlled digital clock (U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Basic Standards, Time and Frequency Division ;, 1976), by J. V. Cateora, D. W. Hanson, D. D. Davis, United States. National Bureau of Standards, and Institute for Basic Standards (U.S.). Time and Frequency Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells. (Lockwood & co, 1883), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and its measurement (Chicago, 1909), by James Arthur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité d'horlogerie pour les montres et les pendules : contenant le calcul des nombres propres à toutes sortes de mouvement : ... L'histoire ancienne & moderne de l'horlogerie. ... (1731), by W. Derham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some considerations on the subject of public clocks, particularly church clocks with hints for their improvement ... (B. McMillan, 1828), by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• English domestic clocks (G. Routledge & Sons, limited, 1914), by Herbert Cescinsky and Malcolm R. Webster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bangerter's inventions; his marvelous time clock. (The McConnell printing co., 1911), by Everett Lincoln King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern methods in horology (Kansas City Jeweler and Optician, 1904), by Grant Hood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel de l'apprenti horloger en province : ouvrage élémentaire à l'usage des amateurs et apprentis qui cultivent cet art (L. Pavie, 1824), by J. J. M. Ayasse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antique watches and how to establish their age (G. K. Hazlitt, 1897), by Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kalender und Uhren am Ende des Jahrhunderts (G. Westermann, 1899), by Wilhelm Foerster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical philosophy, horology, and astronomy. (H.G. Bohn, 1857), by William Benjamin Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einleitung in die physik. Bearb. von G. Karsten ... F. Harms ... und G. Weyer ... (L. Voss, 1856), by Gustav Karsten, Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer, and Friedrich Harms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Common things explained. (Walton and Maberly, 1856), by Dionysius Lardner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clock and watch making: with a chapter on church clocks; and an account of the proceedings respecting the great Westminster clock (J. Weale, 1850), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mechanical philosophy, horology, and astronomy. (W.S. Orr, 1848), by William Benjamin Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watch; its construction, its merits and defects, how to choose it, and how to use it. (Printed by C. Vinten for the author, 1860), by Henry F. Piaget (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Treatise on the structure of watches : with directions for their management and regulation : to which is added a catalogue of goods sold by Palmer and Bachelders, no. 91 Washington Street, Boston. (H.O. Houghton, 1853), by Palmer and Bachelders (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old clock book (Heinemann, 1912), by N. Hudson Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern clock : a study of time keeping mechanism; its construction, regulation, and repair (Hazlitt & Walker, 1905), by Ward L. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and timekeepers: (T. & W. Boone, 1842), by Adam Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der uhrmacher am werktisch; hand- und nachschlagebuch für den taschenuhren - reparateur (Deutsche uhrmacher-zeitung C. Marfels a.g., 1902), by Wilhelm Schultz (page images at HathiTrust)
• English domestic clocks (G. Routledge & sons, limited, 1913), by Herbert Cescinsky and Malcolm R. Webster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uhren, ein handbuch für sammler und liebhaber (R. C. Schmidt & Co., 1922), by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old English clocks (the Wetherfield collection) (Lawrence and Jellicoe, 1907), by David Arthur Fasham Wetherfield and F. J. Britten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cocks and watches and bells (C. Lockwood and Co., 1883), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• On clocks and watches and on the Westminster and other bells (John Weale, 1860), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Curiosities of clocks and watches, from the earliest times. (R. Bentley, 1866), by Edward J. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchung über der gang der hauptuhr der Bothkamper sternwarte. (W. Englemann, 1892), by Otto Peter Harens Tetans (page images at HathiTrust)
• A rudimentary treatise on clocks and watches and bells (C. Virtue and Co., 1868), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de conduire et de régler les pendules et les montres ... (Chez l'auteur [etc.], 1759), by Ferdinand Berthoud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uhren : ein Handbuch für Sammler und Liebhaber (R.C. Schmidt, 1914), by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and clocks: a description of ancient and modern methods of measuring time. (Dutton, 1906), by Henry H. Cunynghame (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hemmungen der Uhren, ihre Entwicklung, Konstruktion, Reparatur und Behandlung vor der Reglage, nebst zugehörigen Tabellen zahlreichen Abbildungen und 6 Porträts. Allegemein verständlich für Uhrmacher, Ingenieure, Techniker u.s.w. (C. Dietzschold, 1905), by C. Dietzschold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clock and watch work. From the eighth edition of the Encyclopaedia brittanica. (A. and C. Black, 1855), by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watch and clock making (Cassell, 1893), by David Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réparations d'horlogerie. (Gauthier-Villars, 1905), by J. Lavaivre (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Clocks and watches (Sir I Pitman & sons, ltd., 1922), by George L. Overton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on modern horology (Crosby Lockwood, 1887), by Claudius Saunier, Edward Rigg, and Julien John Stanislous Tripplin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einleitung in die Physik. (L. Voss, 1869), by Gustav Karsten, Georg Daniel Eduard Weyer, and Friedrich Harms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uhren, ein handbuch für sammler und liebhaber (R. C. Schmidt & co., 1920), by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Über Zeitmessung und Zeitregelung. (J.A. Barth, 1909), by Wilhelm Julius Foerster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Präzisions-Pendeluhren und Nickelstahlkompensationspendel. ([s.n.], 1907), by Sigmund Riefler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Works of art, from the Byzantine period to that of Louis Seize ... also of the beautiful decorative furniture and service of plate. (London, 1855), by Christie, Manson & Woods (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old church bells and clocks ([s.n.], 1889), by Edward Nash (page images at HathiTrust)
• The clock jobber's handybook : A practical manual on cleaning, repairing & adjusting : embracing information on the tools, materials, appliances and processes employed in clockwork (Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1889), by Paul N. Hasluck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chats on old clocks (T. Fisher Unwin, 1917), by Arthur Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Time and time-tellers (J.W. Benson, 1902), by James W. Benson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les merveilles de l'horlogerie (Hachette et cie, 1888), by Camille Portal and H. de Graffigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enseignement théorique de l'horlogerie : volume premier, notions générales (cours préparatoire) suivis d'une annexe historique des progrès accomplis dans la mesure du temps (Journal suisse d'horlogerie, 1889), by Joseph Rambal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geschichte der Zeitmessung und der Uhren (De Gruyter, 1920), by Ernst von Bassermann-Jordan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Watchmakers' library. ([publisher not identified], 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essentiality to the National Defense of the Domestic Horological Industry : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee, Eighty-Third Congress, second session, on June 30, July 1, 2, 1954. (U.S. G.P.O., 1954), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watch jobber's handybook : A practical manual on cleaning, repairing, & adjusting : embracing information on the tools, materials, appliances and processes employed in watchwork (Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1889), by Paul N. Hasluck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique sur l'horloge astronomique de la Cathédrale de Strasbourg (A. Dannbach, 1842), by G. Schmidt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clocks in the Evangeline and Benjamin F. Hunter Collection (Springfield, 1957), by Frederick C. Holtz, Frances S. Ridgely, and Springfield. Evangeline and Benjamin F. Hunter Collection Illinois. State Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art de connaitre des pendules et les montres (Chez l'Auteur, 1841), by Henry Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• It's timing that counts. ([Press of the Roberts publishing co.], 1944), by William H. Samelius and Charles E. Purdom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cloches & horloges de L'Hotel de Ville et de L'Hospice d'Alençon. (Imprimerie Alençonnaise, 1913), by H. M. Legros (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The watch adjuster's manual. (The Keystone, 1904), by Charles Edgar Fritts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionary of occupational titles : watch and clock occupations. (U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Employment Security, Division of Placement, 1954), by United States Employment Service. Occupational Analysis Branch and United States. Bureau of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christiani Hugenii Zulichemii, Const. f., Horologium oscillatorium, siue, De motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae. (Apud F. Muguet ..., 1673), by Christiaan Huygens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Henry G. Marquand collection (American Art Association, 1903), by American Art Association, Russell Sturgis, and Thomas E. Kirby (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the construction and management of chronometers, watches and clocks. (L., 1851), by Edward John Dent and Bradbury & Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clock repairing and making: a practical handbook dealing with the tools, materials and methods used in cleaning and repairing all kinds of English and foreign timepieces, striking and chiming clocks, and the making of English clocks. (Appleton, 1914), by F. J. Garrard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tower clocks (The Company, 1930), by Seth Thomas Clock Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rules and practice for adjusting watches ([Auburndale, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1940], 1940), by Walter J. Kleinlein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Instrumentman 3 & 2. (G.P.O., 1963), by United States Bureau of Naval Personnel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections of the American Art Association (New York : American Art Association, 1892., 1892), by American Art Association, Thomas E. Kirby, James F. Sutton, American Art Galleries, and N.Y.) Chickering Hall (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nathan Samuel Kaplan collection (New York : Anderson Galleries, 1926., 1926), by Inc Anderson Galleries (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Modern Clock: A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation and Repair, by Ward L. Goodrich (Gutenberg ebook)
• Time and Clocks: A Description of Ancient and Modern Methods of Measuring Time, by Henry H. Cunynghame (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bangerter's Inventions; His Marvelous Time Clock, ed. by Everett Lincoln King (Gutenberg ebook)
• Time and Time-Tellers, by James W. Benson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Chats on Old Clocks, by Arthur Hayden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Time and Its Measurement, by James Arthur (Gutenberg ebook)
• Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches, by Walter J. Kleinlein (Gutenberg ebook)
• On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass, by Derek J. de Solla Price (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells, by Edmund Beckett Grimthorpe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Of the unequality of natural time, with its reason and cavses. together with a table of the true æquation of natvral dayes : drawn up chiefly for the use of the gentry, in order to their more true adjusting, and right managing of pendulum clocks, and watches / by John Smith ... (London : Printed for Joseph Watts ..., 1686), by John Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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