Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Origins of mechanical clocks
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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.
The origins of mechanical clocks explained by Simon Schaffer in St Alban's Abbey. Are clocks and bells connected, so that clocks developed out of the Benedictine order? |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:10 |
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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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