Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Examples of clocks in action

Duration: 1 min 12 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.

Film of clocks working, various close ups of escapements and other parts of the great re-constructed clock in St. Alban's Abbey.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 17:31
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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