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Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.
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Born August 19, 1785 • Connecticut
Died January 29, 1859 (aged 73) • Connecticut

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Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.
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Freelan O. Stanley
American inventor
Chauncey Jerome clock
Chauncey Jerome
American inventor
Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.
Eli Terry
American craftsman
Henry Ford
Henry Ford
American industrialist
William P. Lear
American engineer and industrialist
banjo clock
Simon Willard
American clockmaker
Aaron Lufkin Dennison
American manufacturer
North, Simeon
Simeon North
American manufacturer
Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Thomas Tompion
English clockmaker
William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist
Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe
British horologist
Edward John Dent
British clockmaker
John Harrison, detail of an oil painting by Thomas King; in the Science Museum, London
John Harrison
British horologist
Alexandre Darracq
French manufacturer
Ferdinand Berthoud
French horologist
Quare, Daniel: Queen Ann clock
Daniel Quare
English clockmaker and inventor
Francis Edgar Stanley
American inventor
Levi Strauss
American entrepreneur
Seth Boyden
American inventor
Alvan Graham Clark
American astronomer