A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock through the key inventions driving advances in the accuracy of clocks and watches in both Europe and America. The book was conceived and sponsored by the Ingersoll Family as a celebration of their then 25 years of watchmaking. – Summary by Chris Cartwright
Other Audiobook
Audiobook: Dawn
Dawn (also known in England as “Keith’s Dark Tower”), was published in 1919, and is
Audiobook: Man with the Black Feather
Theophrastus Longuet is a retired manufacturer of rubber stamps in Paris. He now spends his
Audiobook: The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
The delightfully eccentric Doctor Dolittle, rendered immortal on screen by the gifted Rex Harrison, has
Audiobook: Illuminations
Illuminations include some autobiographical allusions to his voyant (visionary) period, which began in 1869; but
Audiobook: Carpenter’s Geographical Reader: Africa
Fascinating book for all ages telling of travels through Africa over 100 years ago. Covering
Audiobook: Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor
Terence’s six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator.
Audiobook: Middlemarch (version 2)
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name
Audiobook: Wood Wanderings
American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, takes us on a wandering journey into the woods alerting us
Audiobook: Cambridge Modern History, Volume 01, The Renaissance
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910.
Audiobook: La Eneida
Eneas, príncipe de Dardania, huye de Troya tras haber sido quemada ésta por el ejército
Audiobook: Journal of a Disappointed Man
The journal of British naturalist Bruce Frederick Cummings, spanning from his early childhood through to
Audiobook: Jesse James, My Father
A biography of Jesse James as told by his son, Jesse James, Jr. We are