Time Telling
Time Telling through the Ages
作者：Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940
体例：章 章数：22
字数：412,980 来源：Project Gutenberg
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章节目录
共 22 章- 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
- Chapter IX, _How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific
- Chapter X, _The "Worshipful Company" and English
- Chapter XI, _What Happened in France and Switzerland_ 131
- Chapter XII, _How an American Industry Came on
- 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
- Chapter XVII, _Putting Fifty Million Watches Into
- Chapter XVIII, _The End of the Journey_
- Thus was discovered the principle of the
- "I am working," said he, "for a company
- The Nashua Watch Company of Nashua, New
- ESCAPEMENT—PIN WHEEL—Invented by Lepaute