Collection of Watches Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the City of New York (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Collection of Watches Loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art of the City of New York<br/><br/>The first portable time-keepers were made in Nuremburg and were due to the ingenuity and skill of one Peter Henlein or Hele, who lived between 1480 and 1542. His invention, which originated shortly after 1500, employed a long steel ribbon tightly coiled around a central spindle to maintain the motion of the wheels. These portable time-keepers did not come into general use for a long time, but were reserved for wealthy people who showed a fondness for the novelty, which at first took the form of table-clocks.

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