The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-08

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ClOck-Making in Bristol, Connecticut.
Bristol, Connecticut, is noted for the manu-
facture of clocks. The business is divided
and subdivided into several distinct branches,
so that there are only five firms in the town
that manufacture complete clocks, while
twenty firms are engaged in making the diff
ferent parts of the same. The New Britain
Record gives the names of these firms as
follows:-
'The Bristol Brass and Clock Company,
where the brass is rolled into plates the brass
foundries of Lester Goodenough, where ratCh-
cts and sockets are cast; the works OF the
Bristol Foundry Company, where the weights
and alarm bells are cast; the works OF l.. +. &
w. w. Carter, where movements aud cases
are put together, and the finished clock with
Lewis patent calendar attachment is pro-
duced. Clock springs and springs for toy
movements are made by X. b. Dunbar and
Wallace Barnes. s. Z. Root makes sash and
paper dials patented by himself. w. IL. Net
Teton makes lock works and pillars, and
straightens and cuts wire. A. Warner and
Mr.. Taylor make verges, pendulum rods, and
wire bells. N. Pomeroy, l.. Hubbell, and S.
K. Root manufacture movements. L. N Welch
pany, L. Ingraham Co., and Mr.. Partridge
are large manufacturers of both movements
and cases. George W. Brown * Co. have
also large factory for the manufac lure of
clockwork toys.
"The clocks are produced in great variety,
and range in price from one to eighty dollars
each. Some are 80 constructed that by one
winding they will run respectively thirty
hours, eight days, thirty days, and one year.
A self-winding attachment is also made at
Bristol, which is placed in the draft of the
chimney, and the clock no sooner runs down
than the draft, operating fan, winds it up
again. This little invention is a source of great
income to its author. A perpetual calendar
attachment, which will correctly indicate the
day of the week and month, is also made, the
patentee of which receives as royalty for the
| right to manufacture an income of $4,000 per
! year. An important improvement on the
original invention has lately been made and
secured by letters patent.
"Most of the werkmen employed in clock
making are specialists, who have Ia bored
many years at some particular part, and
though they have become experts at their
buriness, their wages are lower than those of
most other mechanics, ranging from $l'75 to
1926 per day. Much of the work is put out
to be done by women and girls.
cat present the clockmakers are busy
making movements for a walking doll New
1oTK nrm employing nVe nuuureo B'lls Ia
making the dolls to which they are to be at
tached. Many other mechanical movements
for various purposes are also made, among
which are movements for lamp-lighters and
fans, cradle-rockers and baby swings, in which
the baby is the pendulum ball, coffee roasters,
works to ignite torpedoes, and works for a
variety of animated toys. The first clookwork
toy ever made was toy engine, invented at
Bristol, but the inventor never took out a
patent, and probably escaped the miseries of a
large fortune"