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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. NAWCC2_150728_008.JPG: Pocket Watch, c 1913
2. NAWCC2_150728_013.JPG: Watchmaking, c 1910s
3. NAWCC2_150728_015.JPG: Pocket Watch, c 1775
4. NAWCC2_150728_019.JPG: Watchmaking, c 1770s
5. NAWCC2_150728_021.JPG: Telleruhr, c 1680
6. NAWCC2_150728_031.JPG: Sundial (reproduction)
7. NAWCC2_150728_041.JPG: The Adventure Begins
8. NAWCC2_150728_049.JPG: Treasure from the Sea
9. NAWCC2_150728_054.JPG: Great Leap Forward
10. NAWCC2_150728_070.JPG: The First Calendars
11. NAWCC2_150728_073.JPG: Heavenly Surprises
12. NAWCC2_150728_076.JPG: Maps of Time
13. NAWCC2_150728_078.JPG: The Tell-Tale Heavens
14. NAWCC2_150728_080.JPG: Timepiece of Stone
15. NAWCC2_150728_085.JPG: Chronology I
16. NAWCC2_150728_099.JPG: Time Afire
17. NAWCC2_150728_106.JPG: Sundials
18. NAWCC2_150728_115.JPG: Shadow Clocks
19. NAWCC2_150728_117.JPG: Egyptian Shadow Stick, c 1970
20. NAWCC2_150728_119.JPG: Sundial Ring, c 1725
21. NAWCC2_150728_124.JPG: Reading the Skies
22. NAWCC2_150728_136.JPG: Nocturnal Dial, c 1955
23. NAWCC2_150728_142.JPG: Sands of Time
24. NAWCC2_150728_155.JPG: Egyptian Celpsydra, c 1955
25. NAWCC2_150728_158.JPG: Water Clocks
26. NAWCC2_150728_160.JPG: A Useful Public Tool
27. NAWCC2_150728_163.JPG: Of Time and Water
28. NAWCC2_150728_167.JPG: Su Sung's Marvelous Creation
29. NAWCC2_150728_169.JPG: Significant Influences
30. NAWCC2_150728_172.JPG: The Invention that Changed the World
31. NAWCC2_150728_175.JPG: Age of Bells
32. NAWCC2_150728_177.JPG: Origins and Innovations
33. NAWCC2_150728_179.JPG: Behold! The Mechanical Clock
34. NAWCC2_150728_182.JPG: Public Clocks
35. NAWCC2_150728_185.JPG: The Verge, Foliot, and Balance
36. NAWCC2_150728_196.JPG: Chamber Clock, c 1625
37. NAWCC2_150728_221.JPG: What is a Timepiece?
38. NAWCC2_150728_223.JPG: Feel the Power
39. NAWCC2_150728_225.JPG: Control the Force
40. NAWCC2_150728_231.JPG: Regulate the Frequency
41. NAWCC2_150728_233.JPG: Table Clock, c 1570
42. NAWCC2_150728_239.JPG: Renaissance Clocks
43. NAWCC2_150728_257.JPG: Lantern Clocks Arrival of the Longcase
44. NAWCC2_150728_265.JPG: The Search for Longitude
45. NAWCC2_150728_269.JPG: Earth's Invisible Lines
46. NAWCC2_150728_271.JPG: An Idea Ahead of its Time
47. NAWCC2_150728_276.JPG: Lost at Sea
48. NAWCC2_150728_279.JPG: A Seaworthy Solution
49. NAWCC2_150728_283.JPG: Pocket Chronometer, c 1813
50. NAWCC2_150728_287.JPG: Marine Chronometer, c 1806
51. NAWCC2_150728_291.JPG: Pocket Chronometer, c 1810
52. NAWCC2_150728_299.JPG: The Hard Work of Surveying
53. NAWCC2_150728_302.JPG: Mason and Dixon
54. NAWCC2_150728_312.JPG: Table Clock, c 1660
55. NAWCC2_150728_318.JPG: Bracket Clock Movement, c 1700
56. NAWCC2_150728_325.JPG: Chronology II
57. NAWCC2_150728_332.JPG: Clockmaking Comes to America
58. NAWCC2_150728_392.JPG: Artistic Subtleties
59. NAWCC2_150728_399.JPG: Collective Skills
60. NAWCC2_150728_415.JPG: Patent Timepiece, c 1825
61. NAWCC2_150728_438.JPG: The Willard Family
62. NAWCC2_150728_443.JPG: An Industrial Pioneer
63. NAWCC2_150728_475.JPG: Conical Pendulum Statue Clock, c 1875
64. NAWCC2_150728_486.JPG: Asian Horology
65. NAWCC2_150728_490.JPG: Asian Timepieces
66. NAWCC2_150728_504.JPG: Inro Watch, 19th Century
67. NAWCC2_150728_520.JPG: Incense Clock, 1980
68. NAWCC2_150728_522.JPG: Xiangyin (Incense Seal Timekeeper), c 1850
69. NAWCC2_150728_550.JPG: Clocks for (Almost) Everyone
70. NAWCC2_150728_553.JPG: The Rise, the Fall, and the Legacy
71. NAWCC2_150728_562.JPG: "Duet" Novelty Clock, c 1890
72. NAWCC2_150728_568.JPG: Shelf Clock, c 1900
73. NAWCC2_150728_572.JPG: Statue Clock, c 1885
74. NAWCC2_150728_580.JPG: Running the Trains
75. NAWCC2_150728_604.JPG: America Connected
76. NAWCC2_150728_612.JPG: America Synchronized
77. NAWCC2_150728_627.JPG: Early American Watchmaking circa 1800-1860
78. NAWCC2_150728_630.JPG: Chronology III
79. NAWCC2_150728_634.JPG: Making Watches with Machines circa 1860-1876
80. NAWCC2_150728_640.JPG: Top of the World, Then Winding Down circa 1876-1940
81. NAWCC2_150728_643.JPG: Rigorous Standards
82. NAWCC2_150728_649.JPG: Full Circle circa 1940-present
83. NAWCC2_150728_673.JPG: Early American Watchmaking
84. NAWCC2_150728_688.JPG: Regulators
85. NAWCC2_150728_694.JPG: History of the Mechanical Watch
86. NAWCC2_150728_707.JPG: The American Watch Industry
87. NAWCC3_150728_059.JPG: Monumental Clocks
88. NAWCC3_150728_063.JPG: Oddities in Timekeeping Monumental Clocks
89. NAWCC3_150728_077.JPG: The Eighth Wonder of the World
90. NAWCC3_150728_092.JPG: History, Technology and Art
91. NAWCC4_150728_008.JPG: Jewelers, Jobbers and General Stores
92. NAWCC4_150728_015.JPG: Pocket Watch, c 1912
93. NAWCC4_150728_048.JPG: Harrison's Legacy
94. NAWCC4_150728_061.JPG: Electric Clocks
95. NAWCC4_150728_064.JPG: Patent Model, c 1886
96. NAWCC4_150728_070.JPG: Wall Clock, 1867
97. NAWCC4_150728_073.JPG: The Dollar Watch
98. NAWCC4_150728_085.JPG: R.H. Ingersoll & Bro. New York, New York "Yankee" back wind and set, c 1896. The first watch to sell for one dollar.
99. NAWCC4_150728_091.JPG: E. Ingraham Company Bristol, Connecticut "Bugs Bunny", 1948
100. NAWCC4_150728_099.JPG: Symbols of Stability
101. NAWCC4_150728_102.JPG: Big Ben
102. NAWCC4_150728_125.JPG: Precision Clocks
103. NAWCC4_150728_134.JPG: High Visibility
104. NAWCC4_150728_144.JPG: Grandfather's Clock
105. NAWCC4_150728_147.JPG: Daylight Saving Time
106. NAWCC4_150728_151.JPG: Time Zones
107. NAWCC4_150728_158.JPG: Timely Thoughts
108. NAWCC4_150728_165.JPG: Chronology IV
109. NAWCC4_150728_172.JPG: Novel Timepieces
110. NAWCC4_150728_202.JPG: Clocks as Entertainment
111. NAWCC4_150728_204.JPG: Atomic Time
112. NAWCC4_150728_207.JPG: Coordinated Universal Time
113. NAWCC4_150728_217.JPG: Clocks in Motion
114. NAWCC4_150728_243.JPG: Hamilton Watch Co.
115. NAWCC4_150728_280.JPG: Watch / Calculator Prototypes
116. NAWCC4_150728_282.JPG: 1900s: First Examples of Wristwatches 1910s: "Ladies First"
117. NAWCC4_150728_288.JPG: 1914-1918: World War I 1915-1920: Manly Watches for Manly Men
118. NAWCC4_150728_291.JPG: Mid-1920s/30s to 1960s: Hermetic (Purse) Watches
119. NAWCC4_150728_294.JPG: The Roaring 1920s 1930s: The Start of the Wristwatch
120. NAWCC4_150728_297.JPG: 1930s: Birth of the Automatic
121. NAWCC4_150728_300.JPG: 1940s-1950s: Complications Arrive 1980s-1900s [sic]: Quartz Arrives -- Big Time!
122. NAWCC4_150728_303.JPG: 1960s-1970s: The Electric Wristwatch
123. NAWCC4_150728_317.JPG: "Tank Time", 2010 Randall Cleaver Takoma Park, Maryland
124. NAWCC4_150728_329.JPG: Feed the Meter
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Wikipedia Description: National Watch and Clock Museum
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The National Watch and Clock Museum (USA) (NWCM), located in Columbia, Pennsylvania, is one of a very few museums in the United States dedicated solely to horology, which is the history, science and art of timekeeping and timekeepers.

Like its subsidiary institution, the NAWCC Library & Research Center, the National Watch and Clock Museum is operated by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC), a non-profit organization with about 21,000 members and an educational mission. The National Watch and Clock Museum was founded in 1977 by the NAWCC and over time has put together a major collection of horological artifacts, mainly clocks and watches, but also related tools, machinery and ephemera, and has become an important institution in its field.

Most of the greatest and most important clocks and watches ever made have been preserved and exhibited — for decades if not centuries — as decorative art in such major museums around the world as the British Museum in London or the Metropolitan Museum in New York, or form a small department in the globally important museums of technology and science such as the Smithsonian Institution, the Mus�e des Arts et M�tiers or the Deutsches Museum. There are only few museums like NWCM, dedicated principally to the history of timekeeping, and the majority of them - located in former centers of horological production - have primarily a local or regional focus. Since the former "Time Museum" in Rockford, IL closed in the 1990s, the NWCM is often described as the broadest specialist horology museum in the country. (The only comparable museum in the United States is the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol, Conn., but that one is more focused on American-made timekeepers).

The museum, located on the fringe of the Pennsylvania Dutch tourist area, serves both a general public (including youth), as well as a specialised audience of horological aficionados (including NAWCC members), which appreciate its study collection and some of the more specialized temporary exhibits.

Exhibits

The museum attempts to show the complete history of timekeepers from the first non-mechanical devices (sun-dials, hour-glasses, fire-clocks) to the atomic clock and mass-produced wristwatches of the present. There is a "Learning Center" introducing some of the basic technologies of the mechanical timekeeper, such as the pendulum, and a large and varied exhibit on many types of clock escapement. There is an excellent sample of American-made tall case clocks (popularly known as "grandfather clocks"), a comprehensive exhibit on American watches, and a small but excellent area dedicated to automatic machinery used in watch manufacturing. Other highlights include an exhibit of the pioneering automated machinery developed by the American Waltham Watch Company, allowing for the first time to mass-produce watches using interchangeable parts, a large selection of American pocket watches (including Railroad watches), and the "Engel Clock", a complicated "monument" clock built by Stephen Decatur Engel of Hazleton, Pennsylvania. This clock took Engel about 20 years to complete, and it was shown for many years all around the United States starting in about 1877. The Engel clock disappeared in the early 1950s, and was found in a barn in New York State in 1983. The Engel clock was purchased and fully restored by the NAWCC in 1989 and is on display at the museum.

The NWCM has an ongoing schedule of temporary exhibits — usually two of them at a time, one devoted to a general timekeeping-related theme of interest to the public, and the other a more specialized show appealing primarily to horological collectors.
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