Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - The development of complex mechanical clocks and the escapement

Duration: 3 mins 9 secs
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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.

The need for some device to break continuous movement into discrete parts; the invention and nature of the escapement. The role of the Benedictines and particularly Richard of Wallingford and others is explained by Simon Schaffer in St. Alban's Abbey against a reconstructed early clock.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 17:14
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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