CHAPTER II.
PROGRESS OF CLOCK MAKING .-- IMPROVEMENTS BY ELI TERRY AND OTHERS .-- SHELF CLOCK.
At the beginning of this book I have said that I would give to the public a history of the AMERICAN CLOCK BUSINESS.

I am now the oldest man living that has had much to do with the manufacturing of clocks, and can, I believe, give a more correct account than any other person.

This great business has grown almost from nothing during my remembrance.
Nearly all of the clocks used in this country are made or have been made in the small State of Connecticut, and a heavy trade in them is carried on in foreign countries.

The business or manufacture of them has become so systematized of late that it has brought the prices exceedingly low, and it has long been the astonishment of the whole world how they could be made so cheap and yet be good.

A gentleman called at my factory a few years ago, when I was carrying on the business, who said he lived in London, and had seen my clocks in that city, and declared that he was perfectly astonished at the price of them, and had often remarked that if he ever came to this country he would visit the factory and see for himself.