Author: E. HOWARD WATCH AND CLOCK CO.
Title: Catalogue of Fine Regulators, Office and Bank Clocks Manufactured By the E. Howard Watch and Clock Co.
Description: Exeter, NH: Adams Brown Co, 1974. Reprint. Softcover. B&W Illustrations; 4 1/2 x 9; 43 pages; Soft cover is stapled wraps. Green. Published in 1966. A reprint of an 1889 catalogue by the E. Howard Watch and Clock Co, showrooms in New York, Boston and Chicago. Illustrated with b/w pictures. '...By the mid-19th century, regulators were being mass-produced with high accuracy in Vienna, Austria. And near the end of that century, the American version of these clocks began to be produced in mass quantity with equal accuracy. The majority of these clocks kept time only, however, without any bells or chimes. Regulators gained prominence in America in the late 1800s as the time standard in railroad stations of every town. Railroad employees would synchronize their pocket watches to these regulator clocks several times a day. This helped to reduce the number of train collisions....'. Near Fine .

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