Precision clock making and the personalization of time
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Authors
Dugan, David
Publication Date
2004-08-17Language
en_GB
Type
Video
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Dugan, D. (2004). Precision clock making and the personalization of time [Video file]. http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/672
Abstract
Clock making as a mechanical enterprise. The desire for precision, the domesticating of time keeping, portable and standardized time, central time systems needed. Networks of mechanical time. Simon Schaffer explains.
Keywords
individualism
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