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?

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 [...]

Among Neuchatel celebrities two names are cited as being the most distinguished men in the making of dials and enamel painting.
 
One of them, named Charles Racine, early 1800’s, excelled in doing lettering and names. His best work was a small dial of 6 lines on which is inscribed circularly the Lord’s Prayer, its six [...]

I was born in 1810 (he said) in Barnstable, Mass, I descended from Thomas Hinckley, who was Governor of the Plymouth Colony during King Philip’s war. My mother was a Lothrop, descended from Captain Isaac Lothrop of Falmouth, a famous Indian fighter.