Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-1940, Ingersoll, Robt. H., & Bro · New York : Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersol & Bros. · leaf 328
Time Pieces Vital to Industry Without the ability to record time, and, therefore, to control it,the complex web of human activity would become hopelessly tangled. … The End of the Journey but all of the dispatches bear a date-line, and many ofthem are also marked with the hour. Before the days of newspapers, people felt themselves tobe a part of the lives of their own immediate neighborhoodand knew only vaguely of what went on at a distance, butnow each day…
Time measurements · Clocks and watches
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