This is the first chapter in the story of Henry Sully: his origins in Somerset County England, a description of his birthplace, and historical information about the Sully family name.
Category: <span>My writings</span>
In Southern England in 1728, there were six consecutive days of fog in September. The winter there would be severe, with snow from mid-December to the end of January. In…
(English follows…) Ceci sera une collection de notes (en français ou en anglais) qui pourrait mener à un article sur l’horloger français Julien Le Roy (1686-1759) et ses quatre fils:…
Much of the text (and actual typeset) in the 1714 (Vienna) and 1717 (Paris) editions of Henry Sully’s Règle artificielle du tems is identical. The Viennese printer (André Heyinger[1]) may…
I have decided to write a history of Polish-Swiss engineer-inventor Stefan Kudelski, and the origins and early years of his groundbreaking invention, the Nagra portable tape recorder. It’s an interesting…
(Note: Malheureusement ce texte est uniquement en Anglais pour le moment. J’essaierai de dresser un sommaire en Français lorsque je l’aurai terminé, pour les lecteurs francophones.)
Règle artificielle du temps was written by English horologist Henry Sully (1680-1728). It was originally published in Vienna in 1714, then in Paris in 1717. A subsequent and significant re-edition…
(In French, en français): Below are notes on the restoration and preservation of bronzes and gilded decorative elements from eighteenth century France. These were taken from various audio webcasts and…
The Nagra IIci This post deals with the earliest Nagra recorder I ever owned (and since sold to an American collector, when my interests veered to other subjects), a Nagra…
Another aspect of tales about time, is the subject of audio recording, in essence capturing voices and sounds of past moments in time, for posterity. The same could be said…