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I hear America ticking

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Denison apprenticed himself to a local watch maker before leaving for Brunswick, ME. There, he and Edward Howard started the first large clock and watch manufacturing enterprise in 1850. Their legacy of manufactured tower clocks has been continued by a Freeport, ME-based family in the late 1990s.

Author: Waterman, Steven L.
Publisher: Yankee Publishing, Inc.
Publication Name: Yankee
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0044-0191
Year: 1999
Clocks and watches, Clocks, Watches, Towers (Structures), Tower clocks

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How TV Shaped America: It mentored us and mirrored us. Now, as network television explodes, is our very identity at risk?

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The advent of television provided entertainment for audiences around the world, but also went on to socially transform values and norms. Television's inventors could not foresee what the medium has become in the second half of the 1900s, as it has reshaped the way people see the world.

Publisher: Time, Inc.
Publication Name: Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0024-3019
Year: 1999
Television sets, Televisions, Television broadcasting industry, Cover Story, Television programs

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