Connecticut is the "clock state." Modern time was invented here when Eli Terry mass produced it, and it changed humankind forever. The Deco clock and tower of the Seth Thomas clock factory in Thomaston, CT, down the hill from Terryville, is one of the monuments to our transformation.
The story of Eli Terry, Seth Thomas and the beginning of mass production in America is well-told here: https://www.ctexplored.org/everymans-time-the-rise-and.../
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