Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - A clockmaker's shop and the pooling of many devices and skills
Duration: 2 mins 16 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 an old clockmaker's shop, Simon Schaffer describes the many resources needed to make precision clocks, the tools, the devices for measuring screws etc., and the need for extreme precision. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:39 |
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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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