The rise and decline of England's watchmaking industry, 1550-1930 /

The rise and decline of England's watchmaking industry, 1550-1930 / Alun C. Davies.

"This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with "rough movements" from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and B...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Davies, Alun C., 1938- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Series:Routledge studies in modern British history.
Subjects:
Clock and watch making > Great Britain > History.
Clock and watch industry > Great Britain > History.
Clock and watch industry.
Clock and watch making.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Rise
  • Origins: from craft to industry
  • Supply: Clerkenwell and Prescot: a geographical division of labour
  • Supply: two other hubs: Liverpool and Coventry
  • Towards English horology's golden age: technology, organisation, rewards
  • Demand: domestic, government, and foreign
  • Part 2. Challenge
  • Clouds on the horizon: Switzerland's challenge
  • War and peace, 1793-1817: Crisis, recovery, and crisis again
  • The 1817 inquiry: tariffs and smuggling, 1818-1842
  • The Ingold episode and after, 1842-1860
  • Meeting the challenge: chronometers in war and peace, 1793-1860
  • Part 3. Decline
  • Revolution in America: evolution in Switzerland
  • Consequences for Britain
  • The British horological institute: ignoring the elephant
  • Twilight in Clerkenwell: ignoring the market
  • Attempting the "American system": Birmingham, Coventry and Liverpool
  • English chronometers defy decline
  • The great war and after
  • Postscript: the third horological era.

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