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Time Telling Through the Ages

Time Telling Through the Ages

by Harry Chase BREARLEY (1870 - 1940)

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


Appendix A, How it Works

Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces

Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers

Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature

Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief"

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

Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass

Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves

Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators

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

Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland

Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback

Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches

Chapter xiv, Checkered History

Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever"

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

Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service

Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey