Coffee, tea, and chocolate were all
the rage in Enlightenment Europe. These fashionable beverages
profoundly shaped modes of sociability and patterns of consumption,
yet none of the plants required for their preparation was native to
the continent: coffee was imported from the Levant, tea from Asia,
and chocolate from Mesoamerica. Their introduction to 17th-century
Europe revolutionized drinking habits and social customs. It also
spurred an insatiable demand for specialized vessels such as hot
beverage services and tea canisters, coffee cups and chocolate pots. More Books
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Everyone
knows the familiar sound of the cuckoo clock on the hour and the half
hour. There’s something unique about that sound—not the harsh bim bam
of some clocks or the loud chime of others, but a soft cuckoo, cuckoo.
It is widely believed that Franz Anton Ketterer designed and built the
first cuckoo clock in his village of Schonwald in the Black Forest of
Germany. However, the history of this unique clock dates back even
further to around 1630 in the village of Triberg.
Glassmaking was a traditional craft of the Black Forest. According to
legend, a peddler who sold glass made in the region, returned from a
selling trip with a clock from Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. The
province of Baden-Wiirttemburg lies deep in the Black Forest. Winters
there are long, dark, cold. and with deep snowfalls. The weather limits
the forestry and farming during this season, so a cottage clock industry
grew there.
The local citizens copied the Bohemian clock and made the tools to craft
it. Clockmakers assembled the clocks according to their own patterns and
styles. Each made his own parts which weren’t interchangeable with any
other maker’s. By the late 18th century, the clocks were a profitable
export for the region and the villagers sold them as far away as Russia.
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