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Harry Chase Brearley. Time Telling through the Ages
Time Telling through the Ages
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
CHAPTER ONE. The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces
CHAPTER TWO. The Land Between the Rivers
CHAPTER THREE. How Man Began to Model After Nature
CHAPTER FOUR. Telling Time by the Water-Thief
CHAPTER FIVE. How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass
CHAPTER SIX. The Clocks Which Named Themselves
CHAPTER SEVEN. The Modern Clock and Its Creators
CHAPTER EIGHT. The Watch that Was Hatched from the "Nuremburg Egg"
CHAPTER NINE. How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece
CHAPTER TEN. The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking
CHAPTER ELEVEN. What Happened in France and Switzerland
CHAPTER TWELVE. How An American Industry Came On Horseback
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. America Learns to Make Watches
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Checkered History
CHAPTER FIFTEEN "The Watch That Wound Forever"
CHAPTER SIXTEEN "The Watch That Made the Dollar Famous"
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. The End of the Journey
APPENDIX A. How It Works
APPENDIX B. Bibliography
APPENDIX C. American Watch Manufacturers (CHRONOLOGY)
APPENDIX D. Well-Known Watch Collections
APPENDIX E. Encyclopedic Dictionary
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Harry Chase Brearley
Published by Good Press, 2021
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APPENDIX E Encyclopedic Dictionary
The story of the watch that you hold in your hand to-day began countless centuries ago, and is as long as the history of the human race. When our earliest ancestors, living in caves, noted the regular succession of day and night, and saw how the shadows changed regularly in length and direction as day grew on toward night, then was the first, faint, feeble germ of the beginning of time-reckoning and time-measurement. The world was very, very young, so far as man was concerned, when there occurred some such scene as this:
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