Time Telling Through the Ages

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Technology & Engineering

Authors: Harry Chase Brearley In Year : 1919

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Time Telling Through the Ages

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 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 ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece
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
Appendix A, How it Works

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