Scranton and Vicinity Business and Street Directory, 1893-1894 . N. B. LEVY & BRO. 1847 ROGER BROS. SILVERWARE AT Wholesale, Coal Exchange. 109 TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK. TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK- TEN HOURS PER 5000500050 6 50 7 007 50 009 00 10 00 11 00 13 00 14 00 16 00 17 GO 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 0033 0025 00 THE FIRST first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights andwas used as a pocket clock. The first great improvement, the substitutionof springs for weights, was in 1540. The earliest springs were not coiled, butonly straight pieces of steel. Earl
Scranton and Vicinity Business and Street Directory, 1893-1894 . N. B. LEVY & BRO. 1847 ROGER BROS. SILVERWARE AT Wholesale, Coal Exchange. 109 TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK. TABLE OF WAGES BY THE WEEK- TEN HOURS PER 5000500050 6 50 7 007 50 009 00 10 00 11 00 13 00 14 00 16 00 17 GO 19 00 20 00 21 00 22 0033 0025 00 THE FIRST first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights andwas used as a pocket clock. The first great improvement, the substitutionof springs for weights, was in 1540. The earliest springs were not coiled, butonly straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and beingwound up twice a day, they could not be expected to keep the time nearerthan fifteen or twenty minutes in the twelve hours. The dials were of silveror brass, the cases had no crystals but opened at the back and front, and -werefour or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost the equivalent of f 1,600in our currency, and one w^as ordered, it took a. year to make it.
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