clocks and watches

Presents various methods of telling time by using such instruments as the shadow stick, sundial, candle clock, rope clock, water clock, hourglass, and the modern clock.

Not one of Mr. Higgins' four clocks kept the correct time until the Clockmaker assured him they were all correct.

Presents an illustrated account of eighteenth-century Englishman John Harrison's forty-year quest to create a perfectly accurate sea clock that would allow sailors to measure longitude.

When his father buys an antique cuckoo clock with a secret flaw, Michael accidentally reverses time while playing a trick on his little sister.

Humorous text explains the concept of time, from seconds to hours on both analog and digital clocks, from years to millennia on the calendar.