Stretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers

This volume presents the definitive history of the UK-born Stretch family of clock-makers who emigrated to Philadelphia in 1703 and played an influential role in the city's early clock-making, civic, and Quaker communities. Initial essays discuss the family and the importance of their Quaker beliefs; time-telling and the clock making community in pre-1750 Philadelphia; innovative mechanical advances made by the Stretches; and their notable civic ...

By Donald L. Fennimore
Hardcover: 376 pages
Publisher: Winterthur Museum (October 16, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0912724706
ISBN-13: 978-0912724706
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 1.5 x 12.3 inches
Amazon Rank: 1969716
Format: PDF Text TXT book

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This book assembles and presents in large format and brilliant color a considerable number of clocks, artistic and technical masterworks, made by Peter Stretch and his sons, Philadelphia's premiere clockmakers prior to 1750. Extensively researched a

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