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Pictured: Excerpt from “Paillard’s Non-Magnetic Compensating Balance and Hair-Spring for Watches” by Prof. Edwin J. Houston, Journal of the Franklin Institute, March 1888 In early 1888, the newly reorganized Non-Magnetic Watch Company of America gained momentum as people became convinced that magnetism was a danger...
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Pictured: “Testing Waltham Watches with the Great Cannon Magnets, Willet’s Point N.Y.” - Scientific American, April 14, 1888. Following Thomas Edison’s endorsement praising the Non-Magnetic Watch Company’s watches, Waltham fired back with a grand demonstration that exhibited the properties of their own non-magnetic watch. In...
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Pictured: “Ajax Insulators” Advertisement, The Jewelers’ Circular, August 3, 1898. As electricity was being adopted across the globe in the 1880s, the watch industry was met with the challenge of magnetism from electromagnetic fields.  When the delicate hairspring, balance, and steel parts of the watch...
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