Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Clocks and other medieval machines including mills
Duration: 2 mins 21 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 the Benedictine Abbey of St Alban's, Simon Schaffer decribes the great mills developed by the monastic orders and their attempts to make machines, and the conflicts these caused in the general population. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:16 |
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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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