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    US Chronometer manufacturers
    From: Don Seltzer
    Date: 2013 Sep 24, 06:20 -0700

    In another forum, the following was asked:

    >W.C. Mattox wrote in in 1920 work, "Building the Emergency Fleet," that one
    of the problems in equipping the ships of the U.S. World War I merchant
    shipbuilding program was the lack of suppliers of chronometers. He says
    that "few of these instrument ever had been made in America. The art of
    chronometer manufacture apparently was confined to the British isles..." [page
    131 of the 1970 reprint]
    Can anyone verify or refute Mattox's claim?
    >

    What was the state of US chronometer manufacturing in the early 1900's?

    Don Seltzer

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