Instruments · Metronome
Metronome, England, 2017
- Maker / attribution
- Unrecorded in source
- Date
- 2017
- Historical period
- Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
- Country of origin
- England
- Place
- England Lund
- Object type
- Metronome
- Materials / technique
- papper metall trä
- Dimensions
- Bredd 6,3 cm Höjd 25,5 cm
- Holding institution
- Kulturen
- Accession / object no.
- KM 95302
- Credit line
- Kulturen
- Catalogue title (original)
- metronom (Swedish)
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Record summary
Held and catalogued by Kulturen (object number KM 95302), this is a metronome, made in England Lund, dated 2017. The Atlas places it in the Contemporary Horology period (2010 – Present) of its Instruments collection. Materials and techniques recorded by the source: papper metall trä. Recorded dimensions: Bredd 6,3 cm Höjd 25,5 cm. The record is illustrated with 3 photographs.
Assembled from the source record's structured fields. Dates and attributions are given as the source states them; where a field is missing the Atlas leaves it blank rather than estimating.
Catalogue description
Catalogue description from Kulturen
Metronom, trä, underdelen fyrsidig, avsmalnande uppåt, framtill etikett Maezlzel's metronome London; smal stång med gradering, flyttbar metallvikt och i botten en rund vikt. Papperslapp Lunds Universitet Nr 31234. Deposition från Akademiska kapellet, Lund KM 95302 Metronom, trä, underdelen fyrsidig, avsmalnande uppåt, framtill etikett Maezlzel's metronome London; smal stång med gradering, flyttbar metallvikt och i botten en rund vikt. Papperslapp Lunds Universitet Nr 31234. Deposition från Akademiska kapellet, Lund deposition
Shown in the original language of the source catalogue. An editor-reviewed English translation has not yet been published; we do not publish machine translations as authoritative text.
Historical context
Contemporary Horology (2010 – Present)
Silicon components, connected watches, optical-lattice research clocks and a thriving independent scene.
Read the period in the timelineMore instruments from this periodEarlier: Mechanical Renaissance
Atlas type guide
Timers, stopwatches, chronoscopes and time recorders
Instruments for measuring short intervals or recording when something happened form a large and practical branch of horology. Sports stopwatches and split-seconds timers, laboratory chronoscopes (such as Hipp's, which measured thousandths of a second for psychology and ballistics experiments), metronomes for music, watchmen's clocks that recorded patrol rounds, and the time recorders that clocked factory workers in and out all derive from clock and watch technology.
These objects matter historically because they show timekeeping leaving the observatory and the drawing room and entering industry, science and sport. Many were mass-produced, and their dials, scales and patents chart the rise of electrification and industrial management.
What to look for
- Scales graduated in fifths, tenths or hundredths of a second, or decimal minutes for industrial use.
- Start, stop and reset push-pieces; a second hand that can be stopped independently (split seconds).
- Recording devices: paper discs or tapes, printing mechanisms, keys or punches.
- Patent numbers and dates on the dial or case, which give a terminus post quem.
Dating clues
- Hipp chronoscopes were made from the 1840s into the twentieth century.
- Employee time recorders spread from the 1890s (Bundy, IBM, International Time Recording Co.).
- Quartz and electronic timers replaced mechanical stopwatches in sport from the 1970s.
General guidance written by the Atlas editors about this kind of object. It is not a statement about this particular piece; for that, rely on the source record above and on physical examination.
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