Chapter IX, _How a Mechanical Toy Became a Scientific Time Piece_ 106 Chapter X, _The "Worshipful Company" and English Watchmaking_ 118 Chapter XI, _What Happened in France and Switzerland_ 131 Chapter XII, _How an American Industry Came on Horseback_ 147 Chapter XIII, _America Learns to Make Watches_ 161 Chapter XIV, _Checkered History_ 176 Chapter XV, _"The Watch That Wound Forever"_ 184 Chapter XVI, _"The Watch That Made The Dollar Famous"_ 196 Chapter XVII, _Putting Fifty Million Watches Into Service_ 206 Chapter XVIII, _The End of the Journey_ 218 Appendix A, _How it Works_ 230 Appendix B, _Bibliography_ 235 Appendix C, _American Watch Manufacturers (Chronology)_ 241 Appendix D, _Well Known Watch Collections_ 250 Appendix E, _Encyclopedic Dictionary_ 253 _ILLUSTRATIONS_ TO FACE PAGE The Spirit of Time The Cave Man and the Moving Shadow 16 Time Telling in the "Land Between the Rivers" 32 The First Recorded Sun Dial 40 The Clepsydra, or Water Clock 56 Types of the Earliest Time Tellers 64 Galileo Discovering the Principle of the Pendulum 72 A Time Piece of the Middle Ages 80 Ancestors of the Watch 88 The First Pocket Time Piece 96 The "Nuremburg Egg," the First Real Watch 104 First Forms of the Watch 112 Sixteenth Century Watches 120 Late—In Spite of His Two Watches 128 Seventeenth Century Watches 136 The Swiss "Manufacturer" and a Craftsman 144 The First Yankee Clock Maker 152 "Grandfather's Clocks" 160 Eighteenth Century Watches 168 "Quantity Production" in 1850 176 A Glimpse of a Giant Industry 200 Twentieth Century Watches 208 Time Telling in the Dark 216 Time Pieces Vital to Industry 224 _FOREWORD_