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Time for Everyone the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Public Time TIME FOR EVERYONE THE ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND FUTURE OF PUBLIC TIME 7–9 NoVEMBER 2013 CONTENTS The 2013 NAWCC Ward Francillon Time Symposium Symposium Organizers 2 Symposium Sponsors 3 Speakers William J. H. Andrewes 4 Chris Bailey 5 TIME FOR Jonathan Betts 6 Jed Z. Buchwald 7 EVERYONE Sean Carroll 8 THE ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, Geoff Chester 9 AND FUTURE OF PUBLIC TIME Jim Cipra 10 Tracy Dennison 11 David Eagleman 12 Mostyn Gale 13 E. C. Krupp 14 Program 15 Chris McKay 20 James Nye 21 Thomas O’Brian 22 William D. Phillips 23 A conference to explore the many facets of time from David Rooney 24 its origins in the natural cycles of astronomy through the history of how we found it, measured it, and now Lynn Rothschild 25 keep it today. Donald Saff 26 and Dava Sobel 27 John C. Taylor 28 MAJESTIC TIME Anthony Turner 29 A special exhibition to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of the eminent and ingenious Majestic Time Exhibition 30 clockmaker Thomas Tompion (1639–1713) Reception and Horological Information Exchange 32 7–9 November 2013 Map 33 California Institute of Technology and Hilton Pasadena Cover image: Detail of the dial of Big Ben Pasadena, California SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS Executive Committee The kindness and generosity of the following individuals Mostyn Gale, Symposium Chairman and organizations have made this symposium possible Jim Cipra, Chairman, NAWCC Symposium Committee Founders William J. H. Andrewes Anonymous Private Donor Fundraising Publicity & Articles John C. Taylor William J. H. Andrewes Bob Frishman Sponsors Jim Cipra Bob McClelland David P. Wheatland Charitable Trust Bob Linkenhoker John Reardon The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation John Symiczek Tom Bensky National Association of Watch and Clock Jack Goldberg Fortunat Mueller-Maerki Collectors (NAWCC) Frank Del Greco Diana De Lucca Steve Humphrey Patrons Program Meehna Goldsmith Bonhams Clocks and Watches Departments William J. H. Andrewes Carter-Wright Ltd, UK Jim Cipra Transportation Christie’s Watch Department Mostyn Gale Gene Goldstein Skinner Inc. Boston, Dept. of Clocks, Watches Jed Buchwald Hotel Arrangements and Scientific Instruments Dava Sobel Jim Cipra Sotheby’s Watches Bruce Chandler Jim Gilmore Benefactors Speaker Liaison Eric Chung R. O. Schmitt Fine Arts, LLC Kimberly Emswiler, Janet Babb asst. to Dr. Phillips Margaret McVey Thomas Donors Seán Judge, asst. to Mostyn Gale Antiquarian Horological Society (AHS), USA Section Dr. Eagleman George Kozakar NAWCC Chapter 69, Orange County; Chapter 75, Krissy Wong San Fernando Valley Treasurer Mike Schmidt Catering Supporters Mostyn Gale Aimee Perez Timesavers Jim Cipra Shellie Rodriguez Sharmila Bertin, The Watches Magazine Scott Robbins Bertram Kalisher, Chronos Exhibition NAWCC Chapter 56, Los Angeles; Chapter 136, William J. H. Andrewes Design & Website Palomar; Chapter 159, British Horology; Karen Massey Pamela Geismar Chapter 81, Inland Counties; Chapter 190, Ventura Jake Sippy George Plesko and Santa Barbara County Jeff Jenson William J. H. Andrewes Roger Gendron Jim Cipra Mostyn Gale Dean Armentrout Antique Clocks Mostyn Gale Don Saff Bob Frishman, Bell-Time Clocks Steve Pitkin Richard Stenning Charles Frodsham & Co. John Shallcross Stacy Perman Victor Kochaver Jon Sudtell Catherine Andrewes Merritt’s Ernie Jenson Editing Contributors Registration Peggy Liversidge NAWCC Chapter 50, Puget Sound; Chapter 161, Bob Linkenhoker William J. H. Andrewes Horological Science Mostyn Gale Bruce Chandler Dana and Roberta McDown Clare Vincent Information Exchange Mostyn Gale Catherine Andrewes Fortunat Mueller-Maerki Doug Cowan 2 3 WILLIAM J. H. ANDREWES CHRIS BAILEY Will Andrewes was born in London and Chris H. Bailey has been a collector and trained as a clockmaker, working under the student of clocks and watches since guidance of George Daniels, Martin Burgess, 1959. In 1972 he became Curator of the and others, and as a designer, graduating American Clock & Watch Museum in in three-dimensional design from Kingston Bristol, Connecticut. During his career he College of Art in 1972. He became one of the documented many American clock and watch first recipients of the British Crafts Advisory firm histories and lectured extensively on Committee Award in 1973 and was elected them. He has authored over 40 articles and a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of the book Two Hundred Years of American Clockmakers in 1977. Specializing in the field Clocks & Watches (1975) and has co-authored of time measurement for four decades, he American Clocks & Clockmakers (2000, worked at Eton College (1973–1977), the Old 2nd edition 2011) and Fifty Years of Time: Royal Observatory, Greenwich (1974–1977), The First 50 Years of the American Clock & The Time Museum (1977–1987), and Harvard Watch Museum (2009). He has served as a University, where he was the David P. National Association of Watch and Clock Wheatland Curator of the Collection of Collectors Director, authored two NAWCC Historical Scientific Instruments (1987–1999). supplements, and is a Fellow, Star Fellow, He organized the Longitude Symposium and recipient of their James W. Gibbs Literary (1993), edited The Quest for Longitude Award. He has also been a consultant for (1996), and was co-author with Dava Sobel many museums and collections. He retired in of The Illustrated Longitude (1998). In 2001, 2010 and now lives in central Florida. he organized the exhibition The Art of the Timekeeper at the Frick Collection in New 10:45 Saturday 9 November York. He was awarded the Clockmakers’ Affordable Time: America’s Contribution Company’s Harrison Gold Medal in 2007. Andrewes lives in Concord, Massachusetts, where, in addition to consulting with museums and private collectors, he designs and makes a unique form of sundial called the Longitude Dial for which he has been granted three patents. Feature articles about this work have appeared in the Patek Philippe Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, and other periodicals. 19:10 Thursday 7 November, James Arthur Lecture The Time of Our Lives 4 Fragment of the Antikythera mechanism, c. 87 bc 5 JONATHAN BETTS JED Z. BUCHWALD Jonathan Betts was born in Suffolk, England, Jed Z. Buchwald received his B.A. at in 1955 and studied for the British Horological Princeton University in 1971 and his Ph.D. Institute’s examinations in Technical Horol ogy at Harvard in 1974. He then taught history at Hackney College, London between 1972 of science at the University of Toronto and 1974. He then spent five years in business until 1992, when he left for MIT, where he on his own account as a freelance antique was Dibner Professor and Director of the clock restorer, and in 1979 was appointed Dibner Institute for the History of Science Senior Conservation Officer (Horology) at the and Technology. In 2001 he joined Caltech National Maritime Museum (now Royal as Dreyfuss Professor of History. He is the Museums Greenwich, RMG). He has been author of five books in the history of science Senior Curator of Horology there since 2000. and editor of eight others. He co-edits the journal Archive for History of Exact Sciences In his own time he has, since 1980, been Horo- and edits three book series (Archimedes logical Adviser to the National Trust of Great and Sources and Studies in Mathematics and Britain and several other notable horological the Physical Sciences for Springer Verlag; collections. He is a Council Member of Transformations for MIT Press). His most the Antiquarian Horological Society, a vice recent book, co-authored with his Caltech president of the BHI, and will be Master of colleague Mordechai Feingold, is Isaac the Clockmakers’ Company in 2014. Newton and the Origin of Civilization (2012). Apart from many articles in the horological In 1995 Buchwald was awarded a MacArthur press, publications include the small book Fellowship. He was elected to the American Harrison (1993, new edition 2011) and Time Philosophical Society in 2011 and is a Restored (2006), the biography of the great Fellow of the American Association for the horologist and polymath Lt. Cdr. Rupert T. Advancement of Science. Gould (1890–1948). He has just completed a catalogue of the collection of marine chrono- 14:00 Saturday 9 November meters at the RMG. The Taming of Time In 1989 he was awarded the National Maritime Museum’s Callender Award, in 2002 the Clockmakers’ Company’s Harrison Gold Medal, in 2008 the BHI Barrett Silver Medal, and in 2012 an MBE in the Queen’s Jubilee honours “For Services to Horology.” He lives in Greenwich. 15:30 Friday 8 November Precision Crunching, 1650–1900: Measuring Time Accurately over 250 Years Watch movement 6 drawing by John Harrison, 1772 7 SEAN CARROLL GEOFF CHESTER Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Geoff Chester is the Public Affairs Officer the California Institute of Technology. for the United States Naval Observatory in He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Washington, D.C. As such he serves as the Harvard University. His research focuses spokesperson for the Observatory and its on theoretical physics and cosmology, complex mission, relating the institution’s especially the origin and constituents of the work and 180-year heritage to the general universe. He has made major contributions public as well as government and military to the theory of interactions between leaders. Prior to joining the Observatory dark matter, dark energy, and ordinary in 1997 he worked for 19 years at the matter; alternative theories of gravity; and Smithsonian Institution’s Albert Einstein violations of fundamental symmetries. Planetarium in positions that ranged from Carroll is the author of From Eternity to Visual Effects Producer to Staff Astronomer. Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of He has written numerous articles for Time (2010) and Spacetime and Geometry: An popular astronomical magazines such as Introduction to General Relativity (2003). He Astronomy, Sky & Telescope, and Star Date has been awarded fellowships by the Sloan and has served as a consultant for Time-Life Foundation, the Packard Foundation, and the Books, the National Geographic Society, American Physical Society.
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