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Time Telling through the Ages

Harry Chase Brearley · History_-_Medieval_Middle_Ages · 24 章

目录

CHAPTER ONE The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces CHAPTER TWO The Land Between the Rivers CHAPTER THREE How Man Began to Model After Nature CHAPTER FOUR Telling Time by the Water-Thief CHAPTER FIVE How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass CHAPTER SIX The Clocks Which Named Themselves CHAPTER SEVEN The Modern Clock and Its Creators CHAPTER EIGHT The Watch that Was Hatched from the "Nuremburg Egg"CHAPTER NINE How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece CHAPTER TEN The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking CHAPTER ELEVEN What Happened in France and Switzerland CHAPTER TWELVE How An American Industry Came On Horseback CHAPTER THIRTEEN America Learns to Make Watches CHAPTER FOURTEEN Checkered History CHAPTER FIFTEEN "The Watch That Wound Forever"CHAPTER SIXTEEN "The Watch That Made the Dollar Famous"CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The End of the Journey APPENDIX E Encyclopedic Dictionary Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE