AHS Lakes and borders - Robert Frishman lecture and workshop tour

PLEASE NOTE, THIS IS A FREE EVENT, BUT PLEASE BOOK YOUR SPACE TO GIVE US AN IDEA OF NUMBERS.

Workshop address - Cumbria Clock Co, Salkeld Road, Penrith CA11 9NF

Please give me a call on 07740768884 if you have trouble finding us.

We hope you can join us for a tour of the Cumbria Clock Company’s new workshops including the Turret clock Workshop, the House Clock Workshop and the Turret clock Museum /Store. Robert Frishman is visiting the UK and has kindly offered to give us his lecture he gave last year for the Dingwall Beloe lecture at the British Museum in London.-

Robert Frishman-

‘AMERICAN SUPERIORITY’ AT THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION: THE 2025 DINGWALL BELOE LECTURE REVISITED.

Among more than six hundred American exhibitors in London’s 1851 Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace were forty that were featured in an 1852 lithograph and accompanying book to assert, in response to dismissive English criticism and mockery, that these products in particular demonstrated “American Superiority”. America earned five top Council Medal awards: one for an “Astronomical Clock & Spring Governor,” by Bond & Son of Boston, that was praised as “the most wonderful achievement of science which the world has seen since the days of Newton.” Cheap Yankee clocks won no prizes, and were overshadowed by hundreds of refined British horological displays, but already were flooding the English Isles.

*Bob Frishman (bell-time@comcast.net) since 1980 has been a practitioner and scholar of horology. He has contributed dozens of articles to the NAWCC Bulletin, Antiquarian Horology, and other journals, and he has lectured on the subject to more than 175 audiences. He created and organized several NAWCC symposia, and he chairs the annual NAWCC New England Regional Meeting. He is an NAWCC Silver Star Fellow and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. He lives in Andover, Massachusetts.

11am - Arrive for a tour of the workshops.

12.30 - 1.30pm - Lunch (please bring your own lunch as there is no food outlets nearby) we have plenty tea, coffee and biscuits.

1.30pm - Lecture by Robert Frishman.

We can offer transport to and from Penrith Railway Station, if you are traveling by train. Please let us know your arrivals time- mark@clockmaker.co.uk

If you have any questions, please get in contact - mark@clockmaker.co.uk

Look forward to seeing you all.

Mark.