Romance and history of time : a series of world-wide adventures on the road from long ago to now / by Roy Rutherford Bailey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Chicago] : [Elgin National Watch Company], [1922]Copyright date: ©1922Description: 2 volumes [63; 59] pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
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Contents:
Vol. I. Prologue: The voice of the watch -- Before Adam -- The cave-man's timepiece -- The sun-dial -- The water clock -- The time-candle -- The great clock of Rouen -- The table clock -- The first watch -- The Nuremberg egg -- The noonday gun -- Galileo's pendulum -- The first hair-spring -- Jewels -- The time-ball -- Vol. II. The time-ball (cont'd) -- The last raid -- The keyless watch -- The chronometer -- You never can tell -- The pedometer watch -- The master -- Benjamin the builder -- Love and time -- The watch of the future -- L'Envoi -- From Father Time's notebook.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Vertical File Juvenile TS542 .B35 1922 v.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000010567
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Vertical File Juvenile TS542 .B35 1922 v.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000048161
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Vertical File Juvenile TS542 .B35 1922 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000048203
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Vertical File Juvenile TS542 .B35 1922 v.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000010575

"Paintings of Hugh Rankin and Harold DeLay from the notable magazine series published under the same title, Through the ages with Father Time"--Page [3].

Vol. I. Prologue: The voice of the watch -- Before Adam -- The cave-man's timepiece -- The sun-dial -- The water clock -- The time-candle -- The great clock of Rouen -- The table clock -- The first watch -- The Nuremberg egg -- The noonday gun -- Galileo's pendulum -- The first hair-spring -- Jewels -- The time-ball -- Vol. II. The time-ball (cont'd) -- The last raid -- The keyless watch -- The chronometer -- You never can tell -- The pedometer watch -- The master -- Benjamin the builder -- Love and time -- The watch of the future -- L'Envoi -- From Father Time's notebook.

31560000048161 4214

31560000048203 644

Booklet sold to Jewelwes for distribution to favorite Watch customers - Stories about time

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