Time Telling Through the Ages

In the midst of the world war, when ordinary forms of celebration seemed unsuitable, this book was conceived by ROBT. H. INGERSOLL & BRO., _as a fitting memento of the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of their entrance into the watch industry, and is offered as a contribution to horological art and science. Its publication was deferred until after the signing of the peace covenant._

The research work for fact material was performed with devoted fidelity and discrimination by Mrs. KATHERINE MORRISSEY DODGE, _who consulted libraries, trade publications, horological schools and authorities in leading watch companies. The following were helpfully kind to her: New York Public Library, New York City; The Congressional Library, Washington, D. C.; Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey; The Jewelers' Circular, New York City; Keystone Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mr. JOHN J. BOWMAN, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Major PAUL M. CHAMBERLAIN, Chicago, Illinois; Hamilton Watch Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Mr. HENRY G. ABBOTT, of the Calculagraph Company, New York City, and others_.

Credit is also due to Mr. WALTER D. TEAGUE, the well-known artist of New York City, who acted as art editor and supervised the preparation of illustrations, typography and other art and mechanical features.

_The photographic compositions are the result of the enthusiasm, the understanding and the art of Mr. LEJAREN A' HILLER, of New York City. In this connection the courtesy of Mr. HENRY W. KENT, Secretary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, in permitting the use of collections of the museum in the preparation of illustrations, is appreciated._

HARRY C. BREARLEY

CONTENTS

PAGE

Foreword 11

Chapter I, The Man Animal and Nature's Time Pieces 15

Chapter II, The Land Between the Rivers 21

Chapter III, How Man Began to Model After Nature 36

Chapter IV, Telling Time by the "Water Thief" 49

Chapter V, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass 59

Chapter VI, The Clocks Which Named Themselves 66

Chapter VII, The Modern Clock and Its Creators 77

Chapter VIII, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg 94

Chapter IX, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece 106

Chapter X, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking 118

Chapter XI, What Happened in France and Switzerland 131

Chapter XII, How an American Industry Came on Horseback 147

Chapter XIII, America Learns to Make Watches 161

Chapter XIV, Checkered History 176

Chapter XV, "The Watch That Wound Forever" 184

Chapter XVI, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous" 196

Chapter XVII, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service 206

Chapter XVIII, The End of the Journey 218

Appendix A, How it Works 230

Appendix B, Bibliography 235

Appendix C, American Watch Manufacturers (Chronology) 241

Appendix D, Well Known Watch Collections 250

Appendix E, Encyclopedic Dictionary 253

ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Spirit of Time

The Cave Man and the Moving Shadow 16

Time Telling in the "Land Between the Rivers" 32

The First Recorded Sun Dial 40

The Clepsydra, or Water Clock 56

Types of the Earliest Time Tellers 64

Galileo Discovering the Principle of the Pendulum 72

A Time Piece of the Middle Ages 80

Ancestors of the Watch 88

The First Pocket Time Piece 96

The "Nuremburg Egg," the First Real Watch 104

First Forms of the Watch 112

Sixteenth Century Watches 120

Late—In Spite of His Two Watches 128

Seventeenth Century Watches 136