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- Time Telling through the Ages
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27 totalThe cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
FOREWORD
CHAPTER ONE The Man Animal and Nature's Timepieces
CHAPTER TWO The Land Between the Rivers
CHAPTER THREE How Man Began to Model After Nature
CHAPTER FOUR Telling Time by the Water-Thief
CHAPTER FIVE How Father Time Got His Hour-Glass
CHAPTER SIX The Clocks Which Named Themselves
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en
Duration
~8 hours (496K characters)
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Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2015-01-09
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
Harry Chase Brearley
1870–1940
Best known for lively nonfiction that turns practical subjects into readable history, this early-20th-century American writer explored everything from city planning and fire safety to the long story of timekeeping.
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