ELI TERRY’S famous shelf clock, when introduced in 1814-1816, retailed at $15, according to Chauncey Jerome. What was $15 of that day equivalent to, in terms of money today?

I’ve taken some old footage from 1947 and done some editing, putting it into three parts for more convenient file size.
It shows a time when watches where ultra-valuable items when you could only buy them in a jewelry store, showing production methods and expert employees which is extremely interesting.
A great look at watch manufacturing of the past.

Reid, in his treaties on clock and watch making observes that “Height or length of fall for the clock- weights and sounding-boards for the bells were much attended to when building spires for ancient churches. An instance of this is seen in Sir Christopher Wren’s architecture of the cathedral church of St. Paul’s, where the [...]

Illuminated clock dials were first permanently exhibited in London in 1827.
In the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1826 a writer suggests that an illuminated clock dial has been long needed in the great metropolis.
Liverpool, Manchester and other provincial towns already had such clocks, but London had not been able to boast of this accommodation.
The [...]

A chance clock-repairer at last took notice and found it as good as ever, needing merely a brush of oil. Now it has re-established itself on a mantelpiece just off the main stream of household traffic, and the pulse-beat of its pendulum is an appreciated back- drop.