Show I 1 EF fruia arbia rum the scientific american american Aie ale rican clocks clacks and watches american clocks have long iong enjoyed a worldwide reputation and american machine made watches have now become fixed facts dhen when the art of clockman clock mak ing I 1 was wag introduced into thib this country we ve cannot tell but bertal certainly in we know that david rittenhouse rit Ril F R S of philadelphia constructed one of the most ingenious astronomical clocks in the world irenious t that at it gained him film a great name in europe an and at home before the revolution and that it ticked time for many years in princeton Prince tOrr college both before and an dafter datter after the struggle for independence it is also known that john fitch the earliest of steamboat inventors was a clockmaker clock maler and worked at his trade in 1761 and na yet we find the he following regarding the origin of american clocks i elated in a temporary eto tto paper pap er and its ita authorship attributed tribu tri buted tid to mr camp president ot 0 the nea new haven clock Compan company yas as having been uttered in a speech at a supper given not long ago to the employees in his establishment he said makiji was commenced about 1815 by elias terry verry of plymouth who made wooden clocks whittling waitt ling 0 out the wheels with a knife the running w wab was as regulated by a heavy bag ot 0 dand vana and was wound up by a ball at the other end of the cord terry used to make two clocks swing them across his horse and ride off in search of a market very soon lie he introduced the uee nee of brass movements using I 1 old WIles ulles keles because brass was scarce when lie he under tAk taw to make clocks people laughed at him tny tiny thinking it would be impossible for him to BH them in 1823 hon HOD chauncey jerome jarome commenced the buBines business sand and with pro progressive improvements the business now stands more perfected than any other in the ceu cen country in 1821 1631 a wooden clock cost 11 now ww a much better one can beli bell bei bought ought for the business bl siness previously transacted by C jerome co is done by the new now haven hayen cluck clock co in 1857 leot the company commenced making castings then it was thong thought wonderful that it turned out clocks in the year just ended the company turned out complete clocks and finis finished lied movements the above statement about the origin of Ak merican american certainly requires correct on A very useful work on clock and has just been published publish edby iby J wiley of this city it is principally a trans lation from the french with illustrations by U L booth fro pro froia in its appendix wel wei we learn earu earn that there are eight separate clock tories in Connecticut which state seems to en gross nearly the entire business although we have exported export edt clocks to other countries for of year years suye sure we have until very lately imported all our oar watches from tz erland and france but there seems beems to be a fair prospect now of not only supplying ourselves but bu t of ultimately furnishing furn furnishing ishin g those articles artices as wedo clocks to almost every nation in 1850 A L denison on I 1 ingenious us american watchmaker associated himself with several others to manufacture watches in a systematic mariner manner in a manufactory with im lm proved machinery for executing most of the works previously done by hand labor this factory was first put up at roxbury mass but was finally moved to waltham where after a number of vicissitudes it is now being successfully conducted about operatives are employed in it and watches are turned out annually these vary from the simplest form of the lever ever movement to the adjusted chronometer balance their movements are of one uniform size and are constructed ted after the english fashion the english patent lever escapement is used widely J modified after the swiss method by oy the omission onus sion slon of the main wheel fusee and chain the power being communicated direct from the barrel to the train the chief d s tive feature of this thia system is the duplication u ica of every part of the watch by machinery stean power is employed and four fifths of the work is done by it while in the establishments of europe only about one fifth of the work is executed by machinery these american watches have proved to be very good time keepers and are equal to the same class imported from abroad |