Adams Time Chart

The Stream of Time

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You are about to explore Sebastian C. Adams' Synchronological Chart of History, first published in 1871 and revised in 1881 — twenty-three feet of paper that compress world history from the Creation to the late nineteenth century into a single continuous visual timeline.

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Adams Time Chart The Stream of Time
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