Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Glass - Glass, clocks and precision
Duration: 2 mins 34 secs
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In Faraday's laboratory, Simon Schaffer explains what clockwork does, namely to encourage precision engineering, just like glass. The domestication of precision. Like glass, which opened a window on the world, extremely precise manipulation of lens grinding also led to precision. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 16:29 |
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| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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