Time Telling Through the Ages

Harry C. Brearley

• Publisher: White Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781473328433
• eBook ISBN: 9781473339453
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on the history of clocks and timepieces. It contains a wealth of interesting historical information from the first sun dial to the pocket watch, and it is highly recommended for horologists and those with an interest in the development of timekeeping. Contents include: "The Man Animal and Nature's Time Pieces", "The Land Between the Rivers", "How Man Began to Model After Nature", "Telling Time by the 'Water Thief'", "How Father Times Got his Hour Glass", "The Clocks Which Named Themselves", "The Modern Clock and its Creators", "The Watch That Was Hatched From the Nuremberg Egg", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches. First published in first published in 1919.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Foreword
• Chapter I, The Man Animal and Nature’s Time Pieces
• Chapter II, The Land Between the Rivers
• Chapter III, How Man Began to Model After Nature
• Chapter IV, Telling Time by the “Water Thief”
• Chapter V, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass
• Chapter VI, The Clocks Which Named Themselves
• Chapter VII, The Modern Clock and Its Creators
• Chapter VIII, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg
• Chapter IX, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece
• Chapter X, The “Worshipful Company” and English Watchmaking
• Chapter XI, What Happened in France and Switzerland
• Chapter XII, How an American Industry Came on Horseback
• Chapter XIII, America Learns to Make Watches
• Chapter XIV, Checkered History
• Chapter XV, “The Watch That Wound Forever”
• Chapter XVI, “The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous”
• Chapter XVII, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service
• Chapter XVIII, 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