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]
The Swiss "Manufacturer" and a Craftsman[144]
The First Yankee Clock Maker[152]
"Grandfather's Clocks"[160]
Eighteenth Century Watches[168]
"Quantity Production" in 1850[176]
A Glimpse of a Giant Industry[200]
Twentieth Century Watches[208]
Time Telling in the Dark[216]
Time Pieces Vital to Industry[224]

FOREWORD