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Time Telling Through the Ages

Name: Time Telling Through the Ages
Author: Harry Chase Brearley

Harry Chase Brearley

Read by Claudia Salto, Linda Johnson, tommack, realisticspeakers, James K. White, garybclayton and Kristine Bekere · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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