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Time telling through the ages (1919)

Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-, Ingersoll, Robt. H., & Bro · New York, Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersol & Bros. · leaf 184

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complete, forthebull-jdog quality in the Englishman has always made him hol(fast to his ideas. Habits died hard, and the old methodswere changed slowly and under protest, even when thestchanges spelled progress. At first, as we have seen, the watch was the work of one!man and of his assistants, and… … Late—In Spite of His Two Watches The gallant of Colonial times often carried two watches, as wasthe fashion, but often they were both unreliable. / Through the Ages .- .> than a half-inch in diameter—so small , .jrn set in a ring; but when King George III .j.^.it the masterpiece, and the Empress…

Time measurements · Clocks and watches

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