Seth Thomas: Quick Facts

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Born	August 19, 1785 • Connecticut
Died	January 29, 1859 (aged 73) • Connecticut

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Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.

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Wilbur Wright

American aviator

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Aaron Lufkin Dennison

American manufacturer

Chauncey Jerome clock

Chauncey Jerome

American inventor

Off-centre pillar-and-scroll wooden clock by Seth Thomas, c. 1818, under license from Eli Terry; in the American Clock and Watch Museum, Bristol, Connecticut.

Eli Terry

American craftsman

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

American industrialist

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William P. Lear

American engineer and industrialist

Simon Willard

American clockmaker

North, Simeon

Simeon North

American manufacturer

Bracket clock with oak case, ebony veneer, and gilt bronze mounts by Thomas Tompion, c. 1690; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Thomas Tompion

English clockmaker

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William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield

British industrialist

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Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe

English lawyer and horologist

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Edward John Dent

British clockmaker

John Harrison

John Harrison

British horologist

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Alexandre Darracq

French manufacturer

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Ferdinand Berthoud

horologist and author

Quare, Daniel: Queen Ann clock

Daniel Quare

English clockmaker and inventor

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Stephen Goddard

American cabinetmaker

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John Goddard

American cabinetmaker

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Thomas Goddard

American cabinetmaker

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Christopher Townsend

American cabinetmaker