The Modern Clock

"The Modern Clock: A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation and Repair" by Ward L. Goodrich may seem like any of the countless manuals or technical works written about clocks over the years. As a delicate and complicated piece of machinery, having the most up-to-date information regarding its maintenance is of the utmost importance. However, Goodrich shows his expertise and ability to teach by providing readers with not only an informative text, but also one that is easy-to-understand and somehow still entertaining.

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Excerpt from The Modern Clock: A Study of Time Keeping Mechanism; Its Construction, Regulation, and Repair The rapid increase in the dissemination of standard time and the compulsory use of watches having a maxi mum variation of five seconds a week by railway employes has so increased the standard of accuracy demanded by the general. Public that it is no longer possible to make careless work go with them, and, if they accept it at all, they are apt to make serious deductions from their estimate of the watchmaker's skill and immediately transfer their cus tom to some one who is more thorough. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many