The Modern Clock / A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation and Repair

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BY WARD L. GOODRICH
Author of the Watchmaker’s Lathe, Its Use and Abuse.
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS
CHICAGO Hazlitt & Walker, Publishers 1905
Copyrighted 1905 BY HAZLITT & WALKER.
TABLE OF CONTENTS

The need for information of an exact and reliable character in regard to the hard worked and much abused clock has, we presume, been felt by every one who entered the trade. This information exists, of course, but it is scattered through such a wide range of publications and is found in them in such a fragmentary form that by the time a workman is sufficiently acquainted with the literature of the trade to know where to look for such information he no longer feels the necessity of acquiring it.
The continuous decrease in the prices of watches and the consequent rapid increase in their use has caused the neglect of the pendulum timekeepers to such an extent that good clock men are very scarce, while botches are universal. When we reflect that the average ‘life’ of a worker at the bench is rarely more than twenty years, we can readily see that information by verbal instruction is rapidly being lost, as each apprentice rushes through clock work as hastily as possible in order to do watch work and consequently each “watchmaker” knows less of clocks than his predecessor and is therefore less fitted to instruct apprentices in his turn.