An excerpt from a newspaper article from 1912 about the police investigating a bizarre dance performed by a young girl.
Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: police investigate a bizarre dance being performed by a young woman...
An onion-shaped silver pocket watch engraved with a rustic scene.
A rectangular art deco wristwatch with jumping hours.
A very flat silver pocket watch with jumping hours and a day/date complication.
A rectangular wristwatch with dials for minutes and seconds and a jumping hour window.
We hosted some gorgeous vintage Audemars Piguet watches at the #TimeLibrary this week.
#Libraries #Watches
A newspaper article titled "Twentieth Century Plea for the Rod" with an illustration of a man beating a boy with a cane.
Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: Twentieth Century Plea for the Rod.
#Libraries
A cardboard building filled with zines.
Four glowing interactive kinetic installations.
A mechanical gizmo in the shape of a man's face and a blob pulsating in a jar.
A set of knitted clocks.
The latest student kinetic time installations are all set up in the #TimeLibrary! They are adorable and clever and creative.
I have a lot of favourites but I do particularly enjoy the high tide indicator that lets you "pour" out the electronic water.
A diagram showing the development of electronic watches from motorised watches through to tuning fork watches and finally digital quartz watches.
Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: the evolution of electronic watches. Yes, they used to have tuning forks in them!
#Watches #Wristwatches #Horology #Libraries
A sepia photograph of a man with a short beard wearing a tuxedo jacket. He bears an uncanny resemblance to actor John Krasinski.
From the #archives of the #TimeLibrary: a watchmaker from about 1887. You can't tell me John Krasinski is not a time traveller.
#Libraries
"How to prepare & consume a New York gourmet's delight". This drawing shows a diagram of a bagel sandwich. The ingredients are labeled with the names of watch organisations. At the bottom of the page an arrow shows the bagel going into a man's mouth.
Today from the #archives of the #TimeLibrary! WTF is going on here?
#Libraries #Librarians #Archivists
I say "uhm" way more than I thought I did, but even so this fucking rocks.
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Come visit the #TimeLibrary where I work! We have cool things!
#Librarians #Radiation #RadiumGirls #NewYork
If you're out and about in #NewYork today, come cool off in the #TimeLibrary with air conditioning and bottles of chilled water. While you're at it you can browse our books about #clocks and #watches and see some cool #antiques!
Also I hear the librarians are a delight.
Today from the #TimeLibrary: what every #archivist hates to see.
The cover of a Seth Thomas clock catalogue depicting a groom carrying his new wife over the threshold of their house. The wife is clutching a large shelf clock and both the man and the woman are laughing hysterically.
Today from the #TimeLibrary: a Seth Thomas clock catalogue from 1972. Warning: clocks may cause hilarity.
#Libraries #Librarians #Archives #clocks
An ad for a Juvenia "mystere" watch with ghostly writing.
From the #TimeLibrary today: this as for a Juvenia mystery #wristwatch is everything.
#Watches #Libraries #Librarians
A very 1960s watch ad showing two women in funky dresses.
From the #TimeLibrary: Can't find a date on this #Longines book. WorldShare says this was published in 1968 but where's the evidence?
#Cataloging #Cataloguing #Libraries #Librarians #Watches
A gold wristwatch with a white dial and dark burns radiating from the centre.
Today from the #TimeLibrary: this gorgeous #Hamilton #radium watch, c 1950, with wicked #radiation burns on the dial. Up until the 50s #watches were painted with #radioactive paint so you could read them in the dark. Many of the women who painted the dials got sick and died.
#Libraries #RadiumGirls
Wood shelving under construction.
Look at all this sexy shelving going up in the #TimeLibrary. That's right it's extra tall. Yeah, you like that, huh, you dirty book slut. Custom fitted. Think how many books these hushpuppies can hold. Stick your buffered, flip-top document boxes on the top the way I like it.
#Libraries #Librarians
Librarian here. Can confirm, I will help you find the hell out of the information you need. Come to the #TimeLibrary and find out.
Today from the #TimeLibrary: When is a book not a book? I've written about all the weird things that are kind-of books. Maybe books? Sort-of books.
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#Libraries #Librarians #Cataloging #Clocks #Watches #Blooks
A wristwatch with a black dial and red accents. It has a fork-shaped logo and the word "Accutron".
My first purchase since working in the #TimeLibrary - a 1969 Bulova Accutron, the tuning fork watch! It has an actual tuning fork inside used to keep the time. Most watches go "tick tick tick" but this one *hums*.
#Watches #Wristwatches
Today from the #TimeLibrary: my blog post about #smartwatches and #horology. How does your smartwatch know the time, anyway?
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#Watches #Libraries #Librarians
Three colourful analogue wristwatches showing pager numbers on a digital display.
Colourful plastic telephones.
Three colourful Swatch mobile phones.
Today from the #TimeLibrary: #Swatch was absolutely killing it in 1993. They made a pager watch. And a whole-arse mobile phone! Amazing.
#Libraries #Watches #Horology
A howling man flees a sinister grandfather clock that appears to be chasing him.
Today from the #TimeLibrary: "a neglectful husband pursued by the spirit of his wife in the guise of a grandfather clock". What in the name of sanity...
#Libraries
It was so much fun joining #TheBigFibPodcast for a quiz show about #clocks! Can you tell who the fibber is?
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#TimeLibrary
The dial of a Metrictime long-case clock with 10 hours.
Detail from a metric perpetual calendar.
Today from the #TimeLibrary my article about a quirky #DecimalTime system from the mid-20th century United States.
But first how did we wind up with 24 hours in a day anyway? Why are there 60 minutes in an hour? Wouldn't 100 make more sense? Maybe...
hs-ny.org/news/decimal...
#Libraries #Archives
Miniature subway turnstiles.
Two spinning wheels creating an interference pattern where they overlap.
A clock in the shape of a rotating cloud with LEDs indicating the time.
Two clocks sitting on a model black hole.
Today in the #TimeLibrary: students' kinetic installations about time and perception! I love my job.
#Libraries #Librarians #Horology
I never did an intro post so here goes! I'm a #librarian and #archivist in a #TimeLibrary dedicated to research into time and timekeeping. Formerly I was a computer programmer and novelist. Currently doing a master's in #Egyptology. Big on #DoctorWho, #FilmPhotography, and #Esperanto.
A Swatch catalogue depicting a young man wearing pink cartoon sunglasses.
You might think you're cool, but you will never be #Swatch 2015 cool.
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