"HOROLOGY 1776"   SYMPOSIUM  SCHEDULE

MASKS AND PROOF-OF-VACCINATIONS REQUIRED

THURSDAY OCTOBER 7    CITY OF PHILADELPHIA

9:30 to 4:00  Optional local tours  (see "Tours" page for details)

  9:15 Meet for Independence Park Tour

  1:45 Meet for Philadelphia Art Museum Tour at museum entrance

  1:45 Meet for Rittenhouse Tour at Drexel University


THURSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 7 -

BEN FRANKLIN HALL, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 427 Chestnut Street

4:30   Hall opens

5:00   Welcome and introduction by Bob Frishman, Symposium Chairman

5:15   Patrick Spero, APS Librarian and Director - Welcome to APS and its horology holdings

 5:30   Sunny Dzik - English table clocks and their engraved back plates

 6:00   James Arthur Lecture:  Sara Schechner -Ordering Time in Times of Disorder: Clocks and Sundials behind Enemy Lines

 7:00   Conclude evening program

 7:30   Invitation Only - Dinner for Speakers at Philadelphia Club 


FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 -

LIBERTY HALL, MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 101 South 3rd Street

8:30    Enter Museum, proceed to Liberty Hall, 3rd Floor

9:00    Welcomes by Bob Frishman and Scott Stephenson, CEO, Museum of the American Revolution

9:30    Don Hagist - British soldiers and their timepieces

10:15  Don Fennimore -  David Rittenhouse, clock and instrument maker

11:00  Frank Hohmann - David Rittenhouse Orreries

11:45  Box Lunch in Liberty Hall

1:00    Bruce Forman - The Achievements of Benjamin Rittenhouse, Colonial Clockmaker

1:45    Steve Petrucelli - Perspectives in Colonial Clock Making in New Jersey    

 2:30   Gary Sullivan - Connecticut Clockmaking During the American Revolution and Beyond

 3:15    Charles F. Hummel - Nathaniel Dominy IV: Patriot, Clockmaker, Watch Repairer

3:45   Conclusion, tour museum until 5 p.m. closing


SATURDAY OCTOBER  9 -

LIBERTY HALL, MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

8:30   Enter Museum, proceed up to Liberty Hall

9:00   Dave Lindow - Colonial clock movement restoration

9:45   Chris Storb - Philadelphia Clock Cases 1710-1775

10:30 Philip Poniz - European Horology at the Time of  the American Revolution

11:15  Rich Newman - Early American Watchmakers; Robert Leslie of Philadelphia

12:00  Box Lunch in Liberty Hall

 1:15   Damon DiMauro - The Mullikens: Eyewitnesses to a Revolution

 2:00   Mary Jane Dapkus - Freemasonry, Clockmakers, and the American Revolution

2:45   Bob Frishman - Edward Duffield, 18th-Century Philadelphia clockmaker

3:15   Conclusion, tour museum until 5 p.m. closing, return to hotels, meet in area bars

6:00   Museum doors reopen, proceed up to Liberty Hall

6:30Seated buffet-style banquet, beer and wine included, remarks by a special guest

9:00   Conclusion of symposium


SUNDAY OCTOBER 10:  8:15 am - 8:00 pm.  OPTIONAL TOUR TO NAWCC MUSEUM AND HISTORIC ROCK FORD

  8:15 Meet outside Marriott Old City to board bus

Liberty Hall, Museum of the American Revolution, &

Benjamin Franklin Hall,  American Philosophical Society