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by John Locke The prices shown are for web purchases only, retail outlets may charge more post and packing £1 for UK, £2 for all other countries (For those who prefer to purchase by mail, send a letter stating which titles are required and enclose a cheque for the right amount, including p&p to:) Brabourne Books - 16 Cromwell Road - Kingston upon Thames - Surrey - KT2 6RE Tel: 020 8241 1900
YOUR CLOCK : The owner's guide to mechanical clocks ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 1 - 0 This book illustrates many types of clocks as an aid to identification. It explains how they work in order to introduce the terms involved. It explains how clocks should be set up, including winding, hanging the weights, setting in beat, regulating etc. With a special section on 400-day (anniversary) clocks. It also covers faults in clocks, their care and repair requirements. ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 0 - 2 This book covers many types of mechanical watches including how they work, how to operate them, their faults, care and maintenance, and the chronology of their development. 34 pages and profusely illustrated.
ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 3 - 7 A brief history of these clocks, their designer and manufacturer. The book covers the working of these clocks, their adjustment and many of the types encountered. Thirty pages with many illustrations.
ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 2 - 9 This book describes the working of mercury and aneroid barometers, altimeters and barographs, their operation and using them for weather forecasting. It includes their care and maintenance and transportation. Correction and conversion tables are included. Thirty-six pages and many illustrations.
ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 4 - 5 This soft cover volume of 49 pages and 48 illustrations describes how to find out direction, date, time. How to trek across country in a controlled and measured way, and how to map out your surroundings so that you can find your way out of the wilderness. The book describes how to design and make all the instruments required from natural resources.
ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 5 - 3 This is a book of two parts. The first is an expansion of a prize-winning article written for the Management magazine of the Institute of Electrical Engineers. This part proposes a method for the production of skills valuation and for their inclusion into company accounts. The second part is based on a talk given to the Institute of Training and Development. This deals with the problem of quantifying the capabilities of the individual and also the capabilities and facilities of the training and education establishments through which they pass. Matching these capabilities to job descriptions is also covered.
ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 6 - 1 This book describes, in detail, how to design and make a working planetarium showing the movements of the planets around the sun with a high degree of accuracy. 30 pages, 7 tables and 25 illustrations.
ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 7 - X This book outlines the history of this ancient observational instrument and analogue computer. After introducing and explaining certain astronomical terms, the construction geometry of all the components of the classical astrolabe are described in detail. The book continues with outlining the use of the instrument and ends with describing the construction of the commoner variations. 57 pages and 34 illustrations
UNDERSTANDING INERTIAL NAVIGATION ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 8 - 8 This book covers the first principles of Inertial Navigation Systems. INS components used in stable platform and strap-down systems are described including the principles of accelerometers and gyroscopes. Stabilising and erecting the platform, allowing for earth shape, centripetal acceleration, Coriolis effect and corrections for movement over the earth are all covered as are the stabilisation loop, Schuler tuning, error correction and Kalman filters. A complete stable platform INS is described with a comparison between stable platform and strap-down systems. 53 pages and 35 illustrations
A WILTSHIRE SAGA : The story of nine generations ISBN 0 - 9545590 - 9 - 6 The fascinating history of the Blatch family from Wiltshire to Hampshire and of the people around them. With many interesting anecdotes and Appendices on Famous Relations, the London Blatches and inhabitants of Bratton from 1500 to 1800.
69 pages and 12 illustrations
UNDERSTANDING THE GUNTER QUADRANT : with notes on other horary quadrants ISBN 1 - 905013 - 00 - 0 Horary quadrants are portable instruments for telling the time from altitude measurements of the sun, some by means of the stars also. They may also give direction from the same reading. The Gunter Quadrant, invented by Edmund Gunter in the early 17th century was the most popular of these instruments. This book describes in detail the derivation and construction of its calibrations and those of other horary quadrants. The many uses of the quadrant are explained. 63 pages, 40 illustrations in colour and in black and white.
THE PATH OF THE MOONLIGHT ISBN 1 - 905013 - 01 - 9 One woman's life and love through most of the 20th century. A fascinating insight into the experiences of a widespread, middle-class family through two World Wars and beyond. A moving story, in more ways than one, and ending with the death of her husband (although the author lived on for another 24 years, she wrote no more). 175 pages, 16 illustrations ISBN 1 - 905013 - 02 - 7 This book describes how to make a tellurian which accurately represents the motions of the earth and moon enabling the phases of the moon, the daily rotation of the earth, the seasons, eclipses and the Metonic cycle to be illustrated. Construction has been kept as simple as possible and gear cutting to a minimum. 27 gears are needed with a maximum tooth count of 50 teeth. A project which produces a handsome instrument. A special appendix on continued fractions (used to calculate gear ratios) is included 31 pages and 33 illustrations in B/W and colour |
YOUR
POCKET WATCH : The
owner's guide to mechanical pocket watches
ATO
BATTERY CLOCKS
YOUR
BAROMETER, BAROGRAPH or ALTIMETER : The
owner's guide
ACCOUNTING
FOR SKILLS, TRAINING AND EDUCATION
MAKING
A PLANETARIUM
UNDERSTANDING
THE ASTROLABE
MAKING
A TELLURIAN/ORRERY