PREFACE
CONTENTS
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
Transcriber's Notes
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
The Spirit of Time
Back of History, back of Civilization, back of the visible Universe itself, we sense the unending sequence of all development which we know as TIME.
TIME TELLING through the Ages
BY
Harry C. Brearley
Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersoll & Brothers.
NEW YORK, 1919
PREPARED under the direction of The Brearley Service Organization
Copyright 1919 Robt. H. Ingersoll & Brothers. NEW YORK
