Horology tools professional#

Horology tools professional#

This led to a continuing quest to find and assimilate primary sources in Great Britain and America to better understand the thousands of professional British soldiers who served during the 1775-1783 war.ĭon’s specific areas of expertise include British operations in Rhode Island, demographics of the British army, and wives of British soldiers. His focus on demographics and material culture of the British Army in the American Revolution grew from the discovery that there was paucity of literature on the common British soldier, and that much of the conventional wisdom on the subject was inconsistent with available first-hand information. Hagist is managing editor of Journal of the American Revolution (). A Fellow of both the NAWCC and the American Clock & Watch Museum, she delights in serving as contributing editor of the ACWM's Timepiece Journal.ĭon N. She was the Willard House Museum's 2015 Robinson Lecturer, and the feature presenter at the 2019 NAWCC Eastern States Regional. She will have copies with her at the symposium which she will be happy to sell and sign upon request. Snowden Taylor, she is co-author of the book Antebellum Shelf Clock Making in Farmington and Unionville Villages, Connecticut (NAWCC 2019), and author of a second book, Joseph Ives & the Looking Glass Clock, now available for purchase. Her work has formed the basis for several exhibits. She has contributed a number of articles to the NAWCC's Watch & Clock Bulletin and to other publications. Mary Jane Dapkus has had the pleasures of putting herself through college (a multi-decade process), earning two advanced degrees, pursuing a variety of careers, and serving briefly as curator of the American Clock & Watch Museum. David has also been a frequent lecturer and teacher for both horology and engine turning throughout the United States. His period reproduction work can be seen at Monticello, Colonial Williamsburg, Clinton Library in Arkansas, Bush Library in Texas, and the Indiana State Museum just to name a few.

He has also worked for the Detroit Museum of Art and keeps the clocks at the University of Pennsylvania. His restoration work can be seen in the Philadelphia Museum of Art for whom he has worked as a consultant. He has become known for his ability to handle extremely difficult jobs where many components are missing and to restore these clocks sympathetically. In his career David has produced over 1500 clock movements and restored countless period antique clocks. He was also instrumental in the production of the MADE Lathe which brought rose engine production to a new height. Since then over 100 of these machines have been produced and are represented all over the world. In 2006 David developed and began producing the Lindow Rose Engine which made available a newly manufactured engine turning machine for the first time in over 60 years. It was then that the business was moved to its present location in Gravity, PA (Lake Ariel). In 1997 Gerhard Hartwigs died of cancer, and David officially took ownership of the business in 1998 and expanded the production of clocks and horological tooling. After this “journey” to UT David returned to Pennsylvania under Hartwigs’ employ and began applying his newly learned techniques to the production of period style tall clocks and Patent Timepieces.

David’s apprenticeship lasted 5 years after which he worked at Kyden Machine in Salt Lake City, UT learning better machining techniques that would translate to horological production. He also manufactured other items not related to horology. After his apprenticeship he set himself up as a clock manufacturer and produced clock movements as well as other timing devices such as those used in alarm systems etc. Caldwell, Jewelers in downtown Philadephia in the early 1960’s.

David Lindow started his career in horology in 1990 apprenticing under Gerhard Hartwigs, owner of Hartwigs Clock Company.