Clockmakers constructed them inside richly inlaid display cases.ĭ. Their parts often did not fit together very well.Ĭ. Only ten to fifteen of them were produced each year.ī. According to paragraph 1, which of the following statements is true about American-made clocks at the start of the nineteenth century?Ī.
To indicate that there was a limit to the precision of American clocks of that periodģ. To explain why clocks of the period were so largeĭ. To suggest that clock-making process of that period were crude and impreciseĬ. To illustrate how much work was required to make clocks in that periodī. In paragraph 1, why does the author include the information that the gear teeth were cut and filed by hand?Ī. The word painstakingly in the passage is closest in meaning toĢ. The result was a handsome instrument, usually six feet (about 2 meters) high and weighing a hundred pounds (45 kilograms), often a wealthy household’s most expensive possession.ġ. Each clock was ordered in advance by a patron who separately commissioned a cabinetmaker to fashion a wooden case, often richly inlaid and ornately carved according to current furniture styles. The result was a precision instrument, a unique mechanism with each part exactly fitted to mesh with all the others. The clock’s face might come from an old pewter plate, with hands shaped and hammered from spoon handles. To make these parts, he melted down old kettles, cast approximate shapes, slowly hardened them by hammering, and cut and filed gear teeth by hand. A master clockmaker painstakingly produced only ten to fifteen sets of brass movements (the internal parts of a clock) per year. Paragraph 1：Clocks were luxury goods in America at the start of the nineteenth century.
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