Time Telling Through the Ages
Harry Chase Brearley
19 chapters · 6 h 23 min · English
Read by Claudia Salto, Linda Johnson, tommack, realisticspeakers, James K. White, garybclayton and others
Technology & Engineering
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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
Chapters
1 Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces 18 min 2 Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers 27 min 3 Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature 23 min 4 Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief" 16 min 5 Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass 12 min 6 Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves 19 min 7 Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators 30 min 8 Chapter viii, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg 19 min 9 Chapter ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece 20 min 10 Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking 20 min 11 Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland 27 min 12 Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback 22 min 13 Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches 26 min 14 Chapter xiv, Checkered History 14 min 15 Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever" 21 min 16 Chapter xvi, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous" 16 min 17 Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service 20 min 18 Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey 21 min 19 Appendix A, How it Works 11 min
