Time Telling through the Ages
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- 1919
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- 271
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Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces
17:51 -
Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers
26:39 -
Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature
23:16 -
Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief"
16:17 -
Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass
12:21 -
Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves
19:24 -
Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators
30:25 -
Chapter viii, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg
19:16 -
Chapter ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece
20:04 -
Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking
19:33 -
Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland
26:57 -
Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback
22:13 -
Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches
25:55 -
Chapter xiv, Checkered History
13:33 -
Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever"
20:34 -
Chapter xvi, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous"
16:19 -
Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service
20:30 -
Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey
21:04 -
Appendix A, How it Works
11:15
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A glowing watch dial in a frontline trench introduces the importance of keeping time together. The soldier watching it thinks of the schedules governing work, travel and meals back home. Harry Chase Brearley uses this scene to lead into the history of time measurement, from changing shadows to clocks and watches. Published in 1919, the book includes chapters on water clocks, hourglasses, watchmaking in England, France and Switzerland, and the growth of an American industry.
The account also examines the business of putting watches into people's hands. Its discussion of Waterbury describes puzzle contests and watches offered with clothing purchases, then considers how these promotions affected ordinary dealers and the company's reputation. Appendices provide an explanation of watch mechanisms, a chronology of American manufacturers and a dictionary.
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- Author
- Harry Chase Brearley
- First published
- 1919
- Reading time
- About 6 hours
- Pages
- 271
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Engineering
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