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Table of Contents

	TO FACE PAGE
The Spirit of Time
The Cave Man and the Moving Shadow	16
Time Telling in the "Land Between the Rivers"	32
The First Recorded Sun Dial	40
The Clepsydra, or Water Clock	56
Types of the Earliest Time Tellers	64
Galileo Discovering the Principle of the Pendulum	72
A Time Piece of the Middle Ages	80
Ancestors of the Watch	88
The First Pocket Time Piece	96
The "Nuremburg Egg," the First Real Watch	104
First Forms of the Watch	112
Sixteenth Century Watches	120
Late—In Spite of His Two Watches	128
Seventeenth Century Watches	136
The Swiss "Manufacturer" and a Craftsman	144
The First Yankee Clock Maker	152
"Grandfather's Clocks"	160
Eighteenth Century Watches	168
"Quantity Production" in 1850	176
A Glimpse of a Giant Industry	200
Twentieth Century Watches	208
Time Telling in the Dark	216
Time Pieces Vital to Industry	224