Terry and Andrews Shelf Clock, 1840s
date: label: date made
content: ca 1840s
name: label: maker
content: Terry & Andrews
notes: label: Description
content: Made in the 1840s by the firm of Terry and Andrews, this clock represents an effort to incorporate imported springs, instead of falling weights, to drive the brass movement. At the time of its manufacture, there was no spring-making industry in the United States.
label: Description
content: Theodore Terry and Franklin Andrews formed a partnership in 1842 in Bristol, Conn., to make brass clock movements, which began to replace wooden ones after 1838. In 1850 they moved to Ansonia, Conn., to form a company with Anson Phelps who owned a brass mill there. Beginning as a subsidiary of Phelps’ firm, the Ansonia Clock Company went on to build millions of clocks until it went out of business in 1929.
label: Description
content: This clock has a brass time-and-strike movement. Its case has a beehive-shaped iron front inlaid with mother of pearl. The white painted dial has Roman numerals. A label inside the case has directions for setting up and regulating the clock and the makers’ names.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James Arthur Collection, New York University
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0416.030
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0416.030
label: accession number
content: 1984.0416
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shelf clock
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mother of pearl (inlay material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in x 3 13/16 in; 40.005 cm x 22.225 cm x 9.652 cm
label: Measurements
content: bezel: 5 in; 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: pendulum window: 2 3/4 in; 6.985 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 8 5/8 in x 4 1/8 in; 39.37 cm x 21.9075 cm x 10.4775 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: pendulum bob: 2 11/16 in x 2 1/8 in x 1/8 in; 6.82625 cm x 5.3975 cm x .3175 cm