Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - The development of clocks into the eighteenth century
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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 advantages of clocks with escapements over water clocks, that they can be miniaturized. The superb chronometers of the seventeenth century onwards; Harrison and others. The emergence of clockmakers and precise engineering. Superb luxury goods. Simon Schaffer reflects. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:29 |
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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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