Time Telling through the Ages

CONTENTS

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Foreword	11
Chapter I, The Man Animal and Nature's Time Pieces	15
Chapter II, The Land Between the Rivers	21
Chapter III, How Man Began to Model After Nature	36
Chapter IV, Telling Time by the "Water Thief"	49
Chapter V, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass	59
Chapter VI, The Clocks Which Named Themselves	66
Chapter VII, The Modern Clock and Its Creators	77
Chapter VIII, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg	94
Chapter IX, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece	106
Chapter X, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking	118
Chapter XI, What Happened in France and Switzerland	131
Chapter XII, How an American Industry Came on Horseback	147
Chapter XIII, America Learns to Make Watches	161
Chapter XIV, Checkered History	176
Chapter XV, "The Watch That Wound Forever"	184
Chapter XVI, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous"	196
Chapter XVII, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service	206
Chapter XVIII, The End of the Journey	218
Appendix A, How it Works	230
Appendix B, Bibliography	235
Appendix C, American Watch Manufacturers (Chronology)	241
Appendix D, Well Known Watch Collections	250
Appendix E, Encyclopedic Dictionary	253

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