United States / 2013
Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life / Alexis McCrossen
Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life / Alexis McCrossen
The Smithsonian catalogs Marking modern times : a history of clocks, watches, and other timekeepers in American life / Alexis McCrossen as books in its Clocks and watches--History records.
WHY IT’S INTERESTING
Unveiling the jewelers' clock -- Time's tongue and hands: the first public clocks in the United States -- Clockwatching: the uneasy authority of clocks and watches in antebellum America -- Republican heirlooms, instruments of modern time discipline: pocket watches during and after the Civil War -- Noon, November 18, 1883: the abolition of local time, the debut of a national standard -- American sy