Ruth Belville: The Greenwich Time Lady by David Rooney

Ruth Belville: The Greenwich Time Lady

David Rooney

192 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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In a world that witnessed the emergence of automatic timeballs, telegraph time signals, the speaking clock, and the BBC's "six pips," one family provided the hours and minutes to paying customers across London for more than 100 years using a pocke...

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