TIME TELLING THROUGH THE AGES

PREFACE

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER ONE The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces

CHAPTER TWO The Land Between the Rivers

CHAPTER THREE How Man Began to Model After Nature

CHAPTER FOUR Telling Time by the Water-Thief

CHAPTER FIVE How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass

CHAPTER SIX The Clocks Which Named Themselves

CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern Clock and Its Creators

CHAPTER EIGHT The Watch that Was Hatched from the "Nuremburg Egg"

CHAPTER NINE How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece

CHAPTER TEN The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking

CHAPTER ELEVEN What Happened in France and Switzerland

CHAPTER TWELVE How An American Industry Came On Horseback

CHAPTER THIRTEEN America Learns to Make Watches

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Checkered History

CHAPTER FIFTEEN "The Watch That Wound Forever"

CHAPTER SIXTEEN "The Watch That Made the Dollar Famous"

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 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

Transcriber's Notes