Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - The effects of clocks on civilizations

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000. With thanks to Windfall Films.

Some effects of clocks on work regulation and time management. A clock-glass culture emerged, while other civilizations took other paths. Simon Schaffer explains in Faraday's laboratory.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 17:07
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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