Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Machine tools for making clocks
Duration: 1 min 45 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.
The importance of the machine tools needed to make the fine balance springs and other parts of the exquisite clocks from the later seventeenth century. Great precision and low tolerance of error were required. Simon Schaffer explains. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:41 |
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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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