Time Telling through the Ages (1919)
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Harry Chase Brearley's history of timekeeping surveys sundials, clocks, watches, and industrial watchmaking from antiquity to the early twentieth century. (Open Library)
Watches
- Ingersoll watch
- A factory illustration and surrounding discussion cite Ingersoll watches being produced at mass scale as modern everyday timepieces.
Source text: "This picture shows one corner of the huge plants which produce twenty thousand Ingersoll watches a day." (Project Gutenberg ebook 47928)
- Waltham watch
- Brearley describes Waltham as the oldest American watch company and traces its place in industrialized American watch production.
Source text: And that little factory was the foundation of what is now the great establishment of the Waltham Watch Company, the first and hence the oldest watch company in America, and the parent concern of most of the rest. (Project Gutenberg ebook 47928)