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Horology, Science of time, timekeepers, and timekeeping: The Index (National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors), The Watch Quote, Time Measurement & Frequency Standards, Time Services, GPS Time Series, etc. (Martindale’s Reference Desk), Time (Library of Congress), Time and Date.com, Dates & Times (Wolfram Alpha)
Dictionary
chronology : the science that deals with measuring time by regular divisions and that assigns to events their proper dates — Webster
OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, Urban Dictionary
time : (1) the thing that is measured as seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, etc. (2) a particular minute or hour shown by a clock — Webster
OneLook, Free Dictionary, Wiktionary, Urban Dictionary
Thesaurus
Roget’s II (Thesaurus.com), Merriam-Webster Thesaurus, Visuwords
Encyclopedia
Time is the indefinite continued progression of existence and events that occur in apparently irreversible succession from the past through the present to the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the conscious experience. Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension, along with the three spatial dimensions. It has long been a major subject of study in religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a manner applicable to all fields without circularity has consistently eluded scholars. — Wikipedia
David Darling’s Internet Encyclopedia of Science, Britannica
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Foundation
Introduction
Philosophy
Time in Cosmology (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Time (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Time (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Science
The Beginning of Time (Stephen Hawking)
Technology
Preservation
History
A Walk Through Time The evolution of time management through the ages (A NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory Presentation)
On Time : How America has learned to live by the clock (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
History of Timekeeping (About.com)
The History of Timekeeping (Beagle Software)
Quotation
Museum
British Horological Institute Museum
Library
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
Participation
Education
Getting Started (British Horological Institute)
Course
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Community
Occupation
horology : the art of making instruments for indicating time — Webster
Organization
Antiquarian Horological Society
British Horological Institute
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC)
Blog
Time (The Science Geek), WordPress
News
A Matter of Time (Scientific American Special Edition)
Horological Journal (British Horological Institute)
Book
Government
US Time and Frequency Standards (Time & Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards & Technology)
Official U.S. Time and other useful things (NIST and VSNO)
Precise Time (U.S. Naval Observatory)
Document
Expression
Fun
Humor
Hobby
Watch Collecting (Discover a Hobby)
Confessions of a Watch Geek (Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker)
The Modern Gentleman’s Guide To Starting A Watch Collection (Linette Lopez, Business Insider)
Hodinkee
Poem
OEDILF: The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form
Music
Fiction
How Time Travel Works in Science Fiction (Karl Tate, Space.com)
Time travel in fiction (Wikipedia)
List of time travel works of fiction (Wikipedia)
Hypothesis
Time-Traveling for Dummies: A physicist looks at The Time Traveler’s Wife (Dave Goldberg, Slate)
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Redisplaying the York automaton clock
by Blog Coordinator on September 28, 2018 at 2:35 pm
This post was written by Daniela Corda Over summer 2018, Matthew Read, Director, Bowes Centre, and I were commissioned to condition survey, part disassemble, pack for transportation, and reassemble an eighteenth-century automaton clock on behalf of York Museums … Continue reading &rarr […]
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A clock to remember the Zeppelin raids over London
by Peter de Clercq - Editor of AHS Journal on December 1, 2017 at 2:09 pm
A recent article published in Antiquarian Horology, entitled ‘A Time to Remember’, focuses on a pocket watch in the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich that had been recovered from the Titanic, which sank in 1912 after hitting an … Continue reading &rarr […]
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And now for something different
by Blog Coordinator on November 16, 2017 at 2:17 pm
This post was written by David Read, Society Member In the world of watch collectors there are many who dislike finding that a pocket watch case has been engraved with the owner’s name, or to record it … Continue reading &rarr […]
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Two-timing
by Peter de Clercq - Editor of AHS Journal on July 19, 2017 at 12:27 pm
The dictionary defines ‘two-timing’ as ‘to be unfaithful to a spouse or lover’ or ‘to deceive, to double-cross’. But that’s not what I want to talk about. What I have in mind here is people who put the … Continue reading &rarr […]
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Discovering a Japanese lantern clock
by Blog Coordinator on May 12, 2017 at 10:30 am
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