Time Telling Through the Ages

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

Reviews

Another Signpost For The Revolution?

(3.5 stars)

Phxjennifer

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?

Time Telling Through the Ages

Harry Chase Brearley

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Another Signpost For The Revolution?

Phxjennifer