“As Good a Clock as Was Ever Made”: The Clocks of David Rittenhouse

Name: “As Good a Clock as Was Ever Made”: The Clocks of David Rittenhouse
Start: 2023-06-06 18:00:00
End: 2023-06-06 19:00:00

“As Good a Clock as Was Ever Made”: The Clocks of David Rittenhouse

Co-author Donald Fennimore previews the forthcoming book David Rittenhouse: Philosopher-Mechanick of Colonial Philadelphia and His Famous Clocks. One of 18th-century America’s greatest scientists and engineers, David Rittenhouse was also a leading astronomer, mathematician, and clockmaker.