Time Telling through the Ages
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE3. ILLUSTRATIONS4. FOREWORD5. CHAPTER ONE The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces6. CHAPTER TWO The Land Between the Rivers7. CHAPTER THREE How Man Began to Model After Nature8. CHAPTER FOUR Telling Time by the Water-Thief9. CHAPTER FIVE How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass10. CHAPTER SIX The Clocks Which Named Themselves11. CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern Clock and Its Creators12. CHAPTER EIGHT The Watch that Was Hatched from the "Nuremburg Egg"13. CHAPTER NINE How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece14. CHAPTER TEN The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking15. CHAPTER ELEVEN What Happened in France and Switzerland16. CHAPTER TWELVE How An American Industry Came On Horseback17. CHAPTER THIRTEEN America Learns to Make Watches18. CHAPTER FOURTEEN Checkered History19. CHAPTER FIFTEEN "The Watch That Wound Forever"20. CHAPTER SIXTEEN "The Watch That Made the Dollar Famous"21. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service22. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The End of the Journey23. APPENDIX A How It Works24. APPENDIX B Bibliography25. APPENDIX C American Watch Manufacturers (CHRONOLOGY)26. APPENDIX D Well-Known Watch Collections27. APPENDIX E Encyclopedic Dictionary28. APPENDIX E Encyclopedic Dictionary (continued 2)