Author: Henry G. Abbott

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-08-26

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781391634029

Excerpt from History of the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass: Reprinted From the History of the Watch Factories of America Under the title, Watch Factories of America, sixteen years ago, the writer prepared a series of articles for the american jeweler, and it was later published in book form. The edition was a limited one of one thousand copies and the book has long been out of print, but the demand for it has been steadily going on. During the lapse of time new factories have been started and many of the old ones have failed and gone out of busi ness or been given a new lease of life under other names. Men who were then prominent in the trade have passed away and new men taken their places. Factories have been expanded, new machines and methods have taken the places of the old, and so great have been the changes taking place that a new volume must needs take the place of the old to accurately chronicle the changes of sixteen years. This work presents nothing that is new or startling, but is simply a collection of facts, recorded in presentable shape, in connection with the rise and development of one of the most marvelous growths of a mechanical business that the world has ever seen. In less than one hundred years this branch of industry has grown from the humble factory of Luther Goddard of Shrewsbury, with its weekly product of two watches, to the mammoth Waltham and Elgin factories, with their daily output of as many thousands of the finest productions of mechanical precision that has ever been seen. Surely such a development deserves a history. 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.