Editing Clock (section)

===Mass production===

The British had dominated watch manufacture for much of the 17th and 18th centuries, but maintained a system of production that was geared towards high quality products for the elite.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVUSauNST8EC&q=British+Watch+Company+mass+production|title=Manufacturing Time: Global Competition in the Watch Industry, 1795–2000|author=Glasmeier, Amy|year=2000|publisher=Guilford Press|access-date=2013-02-07|isbn=978-1-57230-589-2|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703113711/https://books.google.com/books?id=cVUSauNST8EC&q=British+Watch+Company+mass+production|url-status=live}}</ref> Although there was an attempt to modernise clock manufacture with mass-production techniques and the application of duplicating tools and machinery by the British Watch Company in 1843, it was in the United States that this system took off. In 1816, [[Eli Terry]] and some other Connecticut clockmakers developed a way of mass-producing clocks by using [[interchangeable parts]].<ref>"Eli Terry Mass-Produced Box Clock." Smithsonian The National Museum of American History. Web. 21 Sep. 2015.</ref> [[Aaron Lufkin Dennison]] started a factory in 1851 in [[Massachusetts]] that also used interchangeable parts, and by 1861 was running a successful enterprise incorporated as the [[Waltham Watch Company]].<ref name="Roe1916">{{citation | last = Roe | first = Joseph Wickham | title = English and American Tool Builders | publisher = Yale University Press | year = 1916 | location = New Haven, Connecticut | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=X-EJAAAAIAAJ | lccn = 16011753 | access-date = November 6, 2015 | archive-date = July 3, 2023 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230703113712/https://books.google.com/books?id=X-EJAAAAIAAJ | url-status = live }}. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 ({{LCCN|27024075}}); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, Illinois, ({{ISBN|978-0-917914-73-7}}).</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age: Technological Invention in the United States 1790–1865 |last=Thomson |first=Ross |year=2009 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore, MD |isbn=978-0-8018-9141-0 |page=[https://archive.org/details/structuresofchan0000thom/page/34 34] |url=https://archive.org/details/structuresofchan0000thom/page/34 }}</ref>
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