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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

Year of Publication: 1919Genres: Technology & Engineering

Running Time: 06 hours 23 minutes 26 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	Chapter i, The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces Claudia Salto	17:51
2	Chapter ii, The Land Between the Rivers Linda Johnson	26:39
3	Chapter iii, How Man Began to Model After Nature Linda Johnson	23:16
4	Chapter iv, Telling Time by the "Water Thief" Linda Johnson	16:17
5	Chapter v, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass Linda Johnson	12:21
6	Chapter vi, The Clocks Which Named Themselves tommack	19:24
7	Chapter vii, The Modern Clock and Its Creators realisticspeakers	30:25
8	Chapter viii, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg James K. White	19:16
9	Chapter ix, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece tommack	20:04
10	Chapter x, The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking garybclayton	19:33
11	Chapter xi, What Happened in France and Switzerland Kristine Bekere	26:57
12	Chapter xii, How an American Industry Came on Horseback Kristine Bekere	22:13
13	Chapter xiii, America Learns to Make Watches Linda Johnson	25:55
14	Chapter xiv, Checkered History Linda Johnson	13:33
15	Chapter xv, "The Watch That Wound Forever" Linda Johnson	20:34
16	Chapter xvi, "The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous" Linda Johnson	16:19
17	Chapter xvii, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service realisticspeakers	20:30
18	Chapter xviii, The End of the Journey realisticspeakers	21:04
19	Appendix A, How it Works Kristine Bekere	11:15