Time Telling through the Ages

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