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Time Telling Through the Ages

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(4,143 Sterne; 7 Bewertungen)

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 (6 hr 23 min)

Chapters

Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces

17:51

Read by Claudia Salto

Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers

26:39

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature

23:16

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief"

16:17

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass

12:21

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves

19:24

Read by tommack

Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators

30:25

Read by realisticspeakers

Chapter viii, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg

19:16

Read by James K. White

Chapter ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece

20:04

Read by tommack

Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

19:33

Read by garybclayton

Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland

26:57

Read by Kristine Bekere

Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback

22:13

Read by Kristine Bekere

Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches

25:55

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter xiv, Checkered History

13:33

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever"

20:34

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter xvi, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous"

16:19

Read by Linda Johnson

Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service

20:30

Read by realisticspeakers

Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey

21:04

Read by realisticspeakers

Appendix A, How it Works

11:15

Read by Kristine Bekere

Bewertungen

Another Signpost For The Revolution?

(3,5 Sterne)

A broad history of timekeeping from sundials to pocket watches. Of course, the book was commissioned by an American clock maker, so when the US started to make clocks, the focus switched to North America. Still, it was pretty interesting, particularly the vain attempts of the British government to make the colonists buy only British clocks. Who knew?