Time Telling Through the Ages


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(4.1 étoiles; 8 critiques)

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

Chapitres

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

Critiques

Another Signpost For The Revolution?


(3.5 étoiles)

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?