Time Telling through the Ages
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Publisher Description
Time Telling through the Ages
Harry Chase Brearley, (1870-1940)
This ebook presents «Time Telling through the Ages», from Harry Chase Brearley. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Preface
- Foreword
- The Man Animal And Nature's Timepieces
- The Land Between The Rivers
- How Man Began To Model After Nature
- Telling Time By The Water Thief
- How Father Time Got His Hour Glass
- The Clocks Which Named Themselves
- The Modern Clock And Its Creators
- The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg
- How A Mechanical Toy Became A Scientific Timepiece
- The Worshipful Company And English Watchmaking
- What Happened In France And Switzerland
- How An American Industry Came On Horseback
- America Learns To Make Watches
- Checkered History
- The Watch That Wound Forever
- The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous
- Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service
- The End Of The Journey
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Appendix C
- Appendix D
- Appendix E