Excerpt from The Story of Edward Howard and the First American Watch The American Watch, like practically every other great achievement of American inventors, was wrought out under discouragements that would have appalled ordinary men. While Morse was struggling against the sickening disappointments of the telegraph, and Goodyear was undergoing privation in his search for the secret of curing India rubber, Edward Howard, with the assistance of capital furnished by friends, was struggling with the creation of the watch ...
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Excerpt from The Story of Edward Howard and the First American Watch The American Watch, like practically every other great achievement of American inventors, was wrought out under discouragements that would have appalled ordinary men. While Morse was struggling against the sickening disappointments of the telegraph, and Goodyear was undergoing privation in his search for the secret of curing India rubber, Edward Howard, with the assistance of capital furnished by friends, was struggling with the creation of the watch industry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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