Time Telling through the Ages
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Harry Brearley. Time Telling through the Ages
PREFACE
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
BALANCE COCK
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It was a moonless night in No Man's Land. A man in khaki stood silently waiting in a frontline trench. In the darkness, his eyes were drawn, fascinated, to the luminous figures on the watch-dial at his wrist. A splinter of pale light, which he knew to be the hour-hand, rested upon the figure 11. A somewhat longer splinter crept steadily from the figure 12.
"Past eleven," he whispered to himself. "Less than twenty minutes now."
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Thus the plan and principle of the calendar, as well as our smaller divisions of time, in spite of the small changes by Caesar and Gregory, have remained from the Babylonian days down to the present; and we have done nothing to their system in all these thousands of years, except, incidentally to correct it.
Only once in history have the measures of the ancient calendar been set aside. That was in France at the time of the Revolution, when the French people, in their passionate hatred of all the traditional things that reminded them of their past sufferings, invented a new calendar, in which they changed the names of months and days, and counted the years from 1792, the first of their liberty. They also abolished all Sundays and religious festivals, and divided the day into ten hours. This played havoc with time-keeping, and caused great confusion. Watches and clocks were made with one circle of numbers for the new hours, and another, within, on which were shown the old hours which people could understand. But this complication lasted only a few years, for the traditional system was soon restored.
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