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3 unusual facts about Ansonia Clock Company


Ansonia Clock Company

The parts, machinery and key skilled workers were shipped out of the USA to form the basis (along with the remains of a watch company purchased a year later) of the clock and watch industry in Moscow - e.g.: Poljot, Sekonda.

In 1844, metal dealer Anson Greene Phelps formed the Ansonia Brass company in Connecticut, to supply the expanding clock business - nine companies were producing clocks in Connecticut.

Chauncey Jerome

The next morning, officials believed it was impossible to survive the wreckage, but he did; to make more money to buy a new home, he worked at Ansonia Clock Company.



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