The development of spring driven clocks
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Authors
Dugan, David
Publication Date
2004-08-17Language
en_GB
Type
Video
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Dugan, D. (2004). The development of spring driven clocks [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/668
Abstract
The domestication of clocks and the use of the uncoiling spring which allows very small clocks to be made. The personalization of time, perhaps linked to growing concepts of the individual in the Renaissance. Simon Schaffer reflects in St. Alban’s abbey.
Keywords
industrial revolution, individualism
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