THE AMERICAN SECTION

2002 FALL MEETING

On occasion of the 2002 NAWCC Seminar

Thursday, October 17, 2002, 7:00 p.m.

Holiday Inn, Boxboro, Mass., (Room to be announced)

The featured speaker at the AHS-American Section Meeting will be

William J. H. Andrewes

who will deliver an illustrated lecture on

FRENCH CLOCKS IN AMERICAN COLLECTIONS

William Andrewes is the former curator of the Seth Atwood Collection at the Time Museum in Rockford, Illinois, and the former David P. Wheatland Curator of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University. Among his many horological achievements have been the Longitude Symposium (1993), several books, guest curatorships for horological exhibits at the Fogg and Frick Museums, numerous publications in both popular and scientific journals, and an impressive string of keynote lectures on a variety of horological subjects at many venues in the USA and Europe, as well as uncountable media appearances as a horological expert. He advises various museums and individuals on collection development and resides with his family in Concord, Mass.

The American Section AHS Meeting will be immediately followed by a Meeting of the NAWCC Horological Science Chapter, which all AHS Members are encouraged to attend. (Subjects: Ernie Mart on "A Design Program for Escapements" and "Members' Projects").

All NAWCC Seminar participants are invited to attend both of these meetings, and for those that do, an alternative time will be arranged to see the special Seminar Exhibit.