Explorations: Heavenly Machine - Clocks - Effects of the pocket watch in breaking up agrarian time
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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 pocket watch became a symbol of regulation and was associated with urban trade and merchant life, as opposed to the slower rhythms of agricultural life dominated by the seasons. Control over the length of things became a right - as in torture. Simon Schaffer explains. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 17:46 |
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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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