Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - The development of complex mechanical clocks and the escapement
Duration: 3 mins 9 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.
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. |
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Created: | 2018-03-09 17:14 |
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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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