- 1Epigraph — Preface
- 2Foreword
- 3Chapter One — The Man Animal and Nature’s Timepieces
- 4Chapter Two — The Land Between the Rivers
- 5Chapter Three — How Man Began to Model After Nature
- 6Chapter Four — Telling Time by the Water-Thief
- 7Chapter Five — How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass
- 8Chapter Six — The Clocks Which Named Themselves
- 9Chapter Seven — The Modern Clock and Its Creators
- 10Chapter Eight — The Watch That Was Hatched From the “Nuremburg Egg”
- 11Chapter Nine — How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Timepiece
- 12Chapter Ten — The “Worshipful Company” and English Watchmaking
- 13Chapter Eleven — What Happened in France and Switzerland
- 14Chapter Twelve — How an American Industry Came on Horseback
- 15Chapter Thirteen — America Learns to Make Watches
- 16Chapter Fourteen — Checkered History
- 17Chapter Fifteen — “The Watch That Wound Forever”
- 18Chapter Sixteen — “The Watch That Made the Dollar Famous”
- 19Chapter Seventeen — Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service
- 20Chapter Eighteen — The End of the Journey
- 21Appendix A — How It Works
- 22Appendix B — Bibliography
- 23Appendix C — American Watch Manufacturers (Chronology)
- 24Appendix D — Well-Known Watch Collections
- 25Appendix E — Encyclopedic Dictionary
Time Telling through the Ages
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