6186 - The Mechanism of the Watch

Past President of Institution of Electrical Engineers and of the Faraday Society. Elected Fellow of Royal Society 1906. Retired in 1940 Swinburne took up as a hobby the study of the watch. Yet the study and consequent refinement of watch mechanism will continue, and this book by a noted scientist and engineer is offered as a step towards the perfection of time service which is the goal of every earnest horologist.

88 pages

Edition : 1950