Time Telling Through the Ages

About this eBook

Author

Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940

Title

Time Telling through the Ages

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

TS: Technology: Manufactures

Subject

Clocks and watches -- History

Category

Text

eBook-No.

47928

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47928

Release Date

January 9, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.TIME TELLING THROUGH THE AGES — PREFACE — CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — FOREWORD — CHAPTER ONE The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces
2. 2.CHAPTER TWO The Land Between the Rivers
3. 3.CHAPTER THREE How Man Began to Model After Nature
4. 4.CHAPTER FOUR Telling Time by the Water-Thief
5. 5.CHAPTER FIVE How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass
6. 6.CHAPTER SIX The Clocks Which Named Themselves
7. 7.CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern Clock and Its Creators
8. 8.CHAPTER EIGHT The Watch that Was Hatched from the "Nuremburg Egg"
9. 9.CHAPTER NINE How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece
10. 10.CHAPTER TEN The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking
11. 11.CHAPTER ELEVEN What Happened in France and Switzerland
12. 12.CHAPTER TWELVE How An American Industry Came On Horseback
13. 13.CHAPTER THIRTEEN America Learns to Make Watches
14. 14.CHAPTER FOURTEEN Checkered History
15. 15.CHAPTER FIFTEEN " The Watch That Wound Forever "
16. 16.CHAPTER SIXTEEN " The Watch That Made the Dollar Famous "
17. 17.CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service
18. 18.CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The End of the Journey
19. 19.APPENDIX A How It Works — APPENDIX B Bibliography — APPENDIX C American Watch Manufacturers (CHRONOLOGY) — APPENDIX D Well-Known Watch Collections — APPENDIX E Encyclopedic Dictionary — Transcriber's Notes

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