The pulse glass : and the beat of other hearts
Tindall, Gillian2019
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Before doctors had access to accurate pocket watches, they timed a patient's pulse with a 30-second sandglass. A 'pulse glass' was a functional piece of medical equipment, designed to measure a life, never intended to survive for centuries. But Gillian Tindall inherited her great-great-grandfather's pulse glass, which holds the heartbeats of many by-gone generations and offers a portal to 19th-century Anglo-Irish life, to her grandmother's marriage and the assorted fates of the next generation. A personal and global history in objects, Gillian Tindall traces the memories and meanings that accrue to the artefacts of human lives through time.
Main title:
The pulse glass : and the beat of other hearts / Gillian Tindall.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.
Collation:
275 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781784742997 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920
Language:
English
BRN:
2233439