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After sinking to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1860 — along with the steamship Lady Elgin — Herbert Ingram’s pocket watch is back home. The historic timepiece returned to Boston ...

Vintage pocket watches hold timeless beauty, but over the years, they can lose their shine. This restoration video reveals the meticulous process of bringing an old mechanical pocket watch back to ...

A pocket watch belonging to the late British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram is now on display at the Boston Guildhall museum in the U.K. — 165 years after it was lost ...

A gold pocket watch, an extraordinary discovery,” Van Heest told the local Michigan news outlet Fox 17. For over 30 years, the artifact remained hidden away in storage.

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After 165 years, journalist Herbert Ingram's pocket watch, lost in the Lady Elgin sinking on Lake Michigan, has returned to his hometown of Boston, England.

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The pocket watch was preserved underwater in the wreckage of the Great Lakes deadliest shipwreck for decades. This spring, it made its way home to England, hand delivered by a Michigan historian ...

When the Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan in 1860, British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram was lost to the deep, but 165 years later his pocket watch has returned home.

This article was originally published with the title “ A Simple form of Safety Pocket ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 68 No. 23 (June 1893), p. 357 doi:10.1038 ...