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Rooney, David, 1974-
Subjects
Clocks and watches -- History.
Horology -- History.
Time -- Social aspects -- History.
Civilization -- History.
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Rooney, David, 1974-
Clocks and watches -- History.
Horology -- History.
Time -- Social aspects -- History.
Civilization -- History.
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About time : a
history
of civilization in twelve clocks / David Rooney.
by
Rooney, David, 1974-
W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Call #:
681.113 R777a
Subjects
Clocks and watches
--
History
.
Horology
--
History
.
Time
--
Social aspects
--
History
.
Civilization
--
History
.
ISBN:
9780393867930 (hc)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
ix, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983
--
Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE
--
Faith : Castle Clock, Diy♯r Bakr, 1206
--
Virtue : the hourglass of Temperance, Siena, 1338
--
Markets : stock exchange clock, Amsterdam, 1611
--
Knowledge : Samrat Yantra, Jaipur, 1732-35
--
Empires : observatory time ball, Cape Town, 1833
--
Manufacture : Gog and Magog, London, 1865
--
Morality : electric time system, Brno, 1903-6
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Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913
--
Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935
--
War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972
--
Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970.
Summary:
"A captivating, surprising
history
of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives-and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical
history
of
horology
is only the start of the story. A
history
of clocks is a
history
of civilization"--Publisher.
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