Terry worked alone until 1800, when he hired two men to assist him, and then for several years frequently travelled on horseback through the country selling his clocks. Terry invented a clock that registered the difference between mean and apparent time, but its cost prevented it from becoming popular.
A year later he settled in Plymouth, Connecticut, and there began the manufacture of wooden and brass clocks, but soon ceased to make the latter, as the former, being much cheaper than the metal ones and quite as good time-keepers, proved far more salable. In 1792 he made his first wooden clock, which is still preserved in the family, and is one of the first that was made in this country.
He was apprenticed to Thomas Harland, a maker of brass clocks in Norwich, Connecticut, and there acquired the rudiments of his trade. TERRY, Eli, clock-maker, born in East Windsor, Connecticut, 13 April, 1772 died in Terryville, Connecticut, 24 February, 1852. To become this site's editor or a contributorĪ B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z With thousands of 19th Century illustrations, signatures, and exceptional lifeīiographies. If acceptable, the new biography will be published above the 19th CenturyĪppleton's Cyclopedia Biography citing the volunteer editor Submit a rewritten biography in text form. If you would like to edit this biography please We rely on volunteers to edit the historicīiographies on a continual basis. warns that these 19th Centuryīiographies contain errors and bias. Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, edited by James
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