Time Telling Through the Ages

by Harry Chase Brearley

19 chapters6h 23mEnglish1919

About this book

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock through the key inventions driving advances in the accuracy of clocks and watches in both Europe and America. The book was conceived and sponsored by the Ingersoll Family as a celebration of their then 25 years of watchmaking. - Summary by Chris Cartwright

Chapters (19)

1Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces

1071

2Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers

1599

3Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature

1396

4Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief"

977

5Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass

741

6Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves

1164

7Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators

1825

8Chapter viii, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg

1156

9Chapter ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece

1204

10Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

1173

11Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland

1617

12Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback

1333

13Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches

1555

14Chapter xiv, Checkered History

813

15Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever"

1234

16Chapter xvi, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous"

979

17Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service

1230

18Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey

1264

19Appendix A, How it Works

675

Time Telling Through the Ages

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Chapters (19)

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