{"product_id":"2940150236516","title":"Time Telling through the Ages (Illustrated)","description":"This work has been formatted for your NOOK.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of the watch that you hold in your hand to-day began countless centuries ago, and is as long as the history of the human race. When our earliest ancestors, living in caves, noted the regular succession of day and night, and saw how the shadows changed regularly in length and direction as day grew on toward night, then was the first, faint, feeble germ of the beginning of time-reckoning and time-measurement. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter I, The Man Animal and Nature's Time Pieces 15\u003cbr\u003eChapter II, The Land Between the Rivers 21\u003cbr\u003eChapter III, How Man Began to Model After Nature 36\u003cbr\u003eChapter IV, Telling Time by the \"Water Thief\" 49\u003cbr\u003eChapter V, How Father Time Got his Hour Glass 59\u003cbr\u003eChapter VI, The Clocks Which Named Themselves 66\u003cbr\u003eChapter VII, The Modern Clock and Its Creators 77\u003cbr\u003eChapter VIII, The Watch That Was Hatched From The Nuremburg Egg 94\u003cbr\u003eChapter IX, How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece 106\u003cbr\u003eChapter X, The \"Worshipful Company\" and English Watchmaking 118\u003cbr\u003eChapter XI, What Happened in France and Switzerland 131\u003cbr\u003eChapter XII, How an American Industry Came on Horseback 147\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIII, America Learns to Make Watches 161\u003cbr\u003eChapter XIV, Checkered History 176\u003cbr\u003eChapter XV, \"The Watch That Wound Forever\" 184\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVI, \"The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous\" 196\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVII, Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service 2068\u003cbr\u003eChapter XVIII, The End of the Journey 218\u003cbr\u003eAppendix A, How it Works 230\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B, Bibliography 235\u003cbr\u003eAppendix C, American Watch Manufacturers (Chronology) 241\u003cbr\u003eAppendix D, Well Known Watch Collections 250\u003cbr\u003eAppendix E, Encyclopedic Dictionary 253\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bronson Tweed Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112364032240,"sku":"2940150236516","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150236516_p0.jpg?v=1763740962","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150236516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}