Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Precision clock making and the personalization of time
Duration: 2 mins 44 secs
Share this media item:
Embed this media item:
Embed this media item:
About this item
| Description: |
Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’, shown in 2000.
With thanks to Windfall Films. Clock making as a mechanical enterprise. The desire for precision, the domesticating of time keeping, portable and standardized time, central time systems needed. Networks of mechanical time. Simon Schaffer explains. |
|---|
| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:37 |
|---|---|
| Collection: | A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off) |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
Available Formats
| Format | Quality | Bitrate | Size | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MPEG-4 Video | 960x720 | 2.99 Mbits/sec | 61.42 MB | View | Download | |
| MPEG-4 Video | 480x360 | 1.93 Mbits/sec | 39.72 MB | View | Download | |
| WebM | 960x720 | 2.09 Mbits/sec | 43.25 MB | View | Download | |
| WebM | 480x360 | 739.96 kbits/sec | 14.90 MB | View | Download | |
| iPod Video | 480x360 | 516.32 kbits/sec | 10.34 MB | View | Download | |
| iPod Video | 320x240 | 349.6 kbits/sec | 7.00 MB | View | Download | |
| iPod Video | 160x120 | 297.52 kbits/sec | 5.96 MB | View | Download | |
| MP3 | 44100 Hz | 250.32 kbits/sec | 5.01 MB | Listen | Download | |
| MP3 | 44100 Hz | 62.58 kbits/sec | 1.25 MB | Listen | Download | |
| Auto * | (Allows browser to choose a format it supports) | |||||