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... Full description
- Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983
- Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE
- Faith : Castle Clock, Diyār 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
- Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913
- Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935
- War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972
- Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970.