clocks and watches

Examines how time has been measured through history, by such methods as observation of natural cycles and different kinds of clocks and watches.

Ernst, the mechanical man created by Karl Gruber in the late nineteenth century, is raised and educated in Gruber's household, but trouble mounts when Ernst inexplicably develops feelings of love for Gruber's daughter, Giselle, and after a sudden tragedy occurs, Ernst winds himself down, only to awaken in a strange world more than one hundred years in the future.

Thomas learns how to tell time with a new clock all his own.

With the help of her grandfather's watch, Muledred the mule finally gets to school on time.

A child, wondering why Grandma doesn't have the grandfather clock in her house repaired, learns that there are many ways to measure time, from the moment it takes to blink an eye to the years shown in gray hairs.

Max replaces his lost digital watch with an analog watch which he does not know how to read, and he finds himself late for everything.

Ramon is in the attic and finds an old clock of his grandfather's. He searches for the missing numbers and soon discovers them in some very interesting places.

The reader helps a young bear tell time by turning the hands of the clock affixed to each page.