The Elgin Pocket Watch. The following is an interesting story about the Elgin Pocket Watch Company. It was found in the July issue of Harpers New Monthly Magazine 1. Before anyone writes and complains about the grammar and spelling remember, it was witten in 1. WHAT oclock is it asked Emanuel Swedenborg, upon his deathbed. Watch Some Velvet Morning Streaming' title='Watch Some Velvet Morning Streaming' />Being told, he answered, It is well I thank you may God bless you and the pure spirit of the venerable teacher gently passed away. What oclock is it ask little children, as they blow off the feathered seed vessels of the dandelion, and tell the hour by the number that remain upon the stalk. Civilized man every where, from the cradle to the grave, repeats this question oftener than any other. Were all things at rest it could never be answered. Motion alone enables us to measure time. Motion is best exemplified in the heavenly bodies, particularly the sun. Yet man, the tool making animal, never asks, What osun but simply What oclock He has brought artificial timekeepers to such perfection that they are the most wonderful of his mechanical achievements, the things most alive and human in the entire range of his handiwork. Primitive man had little need of clocks or watches. Watch Some Velvet Morning Streaming' title='Watch Some Velvet Morning Streaming' />The opening and closing of flowers the voices of birds, beasts, and insects the position of sun, moon, and stars, told the passage of time with accuracy enough for his simple life. Mariners, hunters, shepherds, and all other men much alone with nature, still keep familiar with her habits and her moods. The Indian says, Four moons have passed, or It was ten sleeps ago and the farmer, It was between day and sunrise, or It was half an hour by sun. Jobs expression, As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, points to the earliest artificial timekeeper. The sundial dialis, daily originated, nobody knows when, with some of the Eastern nations. Isaiah wrote, eight hundred years before Christ, I will bring back the shadow of the degrees which is gone down in the sundial of Ahaz ten degrees backward. A dial, usually standing upon a stone post on a sunny knoll, is still preserved as a relic of the past in almost every English country churchyard. Around it on Sunday mornings, an hour or two before service, were wont to gather the rustics, discussing crops, the weather, and politics, while matrons gossiped soberly, and children tumbled in leapfrog over mossy tombstones, or played ball against the tower, till the parsons tinkling bell summoned all to worship. Get the latest news on celebrity scandals, engagements, and divorces Check out our breaking stories on Hollywoods hottest stars On August 5, youll be able to watch hilarious Billy on the Street segments because Hulu is streaming the shows the fifth season were excited to watch him. 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FCewg3ikDTk/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Watch Some Velvet Morning Streaming' title='Watch Some Velvet Morning Streaming' />In clear weather the dial showed the hour by day, as the stars did by night but when clouds came something more was needed. Hence the East originated the Clepsydra the Water Stealer, a transparent, graduated vase filled with liquid, which slowly trickled or stole away through a little aperture in the bottom. The receding height marked the passage of the hours. The clepsydra was used in ancient China, and in Egypt under the Ptolemies. Caster found it among the native Britons. Pompeii introduced it into Roman courts to prevent babbling. One of Martials epigrams counseled a dull declaimer, who was constantly quaffing from a glass of water during his endless harangue, to relieve both himself and his audience by drinking from the clepsydra instead. In the Colony of Massachusetts Bay two centuries ago an hour glass stood before the Puritan preacher, and was turned by a tithing man when he began his sermon. The hour glass is only a modification of the clepsydra. It substitutes fine sand for water, as something which will neither freeze nor evaporate, and which, when the glass is full, will run little faster than when it is nearly. It was known before the Christian era, and has been used by nearly all nations. It was so common among our ancestors a hundred years ago that the illustration which we copy from the New England Primer of 1. In dry, equable Eastern climates the clepsydra long maintained its supremacy, and it is used in India even to this day. It was exceedingly inaccurate, but improvements were constantly added. Sometimes water flowed in tears from the eyes of automata, and sometimes a floating statue rising and falling with the liquid pointed to the passing hours engraved upon an upright scale. Next, a little wheel was introduced, on which the water fell drop by drop, turning it, and thus communicating motion to hands upon a dial. In time machinery was inserted to tell not only the hours of the day, but the age of the moon, and the motions of other heavenly bodies and finally the clepsydra grew into an ingenious and complicated waterclock, A thousand years ago a Persian caliph, the Haroun al Raschid of the Arabian Nights, sent one to the Emperor Charlemagne which had a striking apparatus. When the twelve hours were completed twelve doors opened in its face and from each rode an automaton horseman, who waited till the striking was over, and then rode back again, closing the door after him. Talking with some fans, Riker himself, Jonathan Frakes, who also took a turn in the directors chair for an episode of Star Trek Discovery, shared an interesting. Elgin Pocket Watch Company National Watch Company 18641964, its history and the pocket watches it made. Clock originally signified bell, and the French cloche still retains that meaning. The invention is claimed for many different peoples and eras, from the Chinese two thousand years before Christ down to the Germans of eight centuries ago. The first general use of clocks was in monasteries, during the eleventh century. Before their appearance the sacristan sat up to watch the stars that he might waken the monks at the hours of prayer. The common people attributed their origin to the devil and had any body outside of the religious orders incurred the odium of first introducing them, he would doubtless have been put to death as a sorcerer. For several hundred years they were exceedingly rude and irregular. But not long after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, Galileo, while noticing the vibrations of a hanging lamp, discovered the great principle of the pendulum that when a suspended body is swinging, any increase or decrease of its speed will not change the number of vibrations it makes in a given time, but only the length of the arc it describes. The pendulum was soon applied to the clock, and added greatly to its accuracy. Public clocks nevertheless have always been tempting marks for the shafts of satire. The proverb, As untrustworthy as a town clock, still continues in vogue and there is a witty saying in Peterborough, England, that if the clock of the cathedral and that of the parish church ever strike simultaneously there will be a death in the minster yard. Until after the Revolution the American colonies had few clocks of any kind. Sun dials and hour glasses sufficed for those leisurely days. Why is it that the more we multiply inventions for saving time and labor, the more we are pressed for minutes, and the harder we have to work Thirty years ago The varnished clock that clicked behind the door was the great domestic time keeper. Who has forgotten its monotonous click clack, or its quaint, upright case, taller than a man What true Yankee boy ever failed, sooner or later, to take it to pieces, and see how it was made Or the kitchen bellows, cut open to learn what was inside, was very disappointing but the old family clock, surreptitiously dissected, proved its own exceeding great reward. Until within the last two or three generations all our time keepers were made in Europe. Now, Connecticut clocks tell the hour at Jerusalem, at Calcutta, at Pekin, and at Irkoutsk. At our factories a fair little clock., neatly eased, can be afforded for eighty cents gold.