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Time Telling Through the Ages

Time Telling Through the Ages

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Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 06 hours and 23 minutes

Language: English

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock through the key inventions driving advances in the accuracy of clocks and watches in both Europe and America. The book was conceived and sponsored by the Ingersoll Family as a celebration of their then 25 years of watchmaking. - Summary by Chris Cartwright

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Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces (Claudia Salto)
Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers (Linda Johnson)
Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature (Linda Johnson)
Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief" (Linda Johnson)
Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass (Linda Johnson)
Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves (tommack)
Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators (realisticspeakers)
Chapter viii, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg (James K. White)
Chapter ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece (tommack)
Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking (garybclayton)
Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland (Kristine Bekere)
Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback (Kristine Bekere)
Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches (Linda Johnson)
Chapter xiv, Checkered History (Linda Johnson)
Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever" (Linda Johnson)
Chapter xvi, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous" (Linda Johnson)
Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service (realisticspeakers)
Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey (realisticspeakers)
Appendix A, How it Works (Kristine Bekere)
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