Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world
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Revolution in time : clocks and the making of the modern world
Viking, 2000
2nd ed
- : pbk
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This paperback edition statement from "Preface to the second edition" (p. xix-xxiv) dated Sept. 1999
Place from "Viking. Published by the Penguin Group. ... London, England. ... This revised edition first published in Great Britain by Viking 2000" on verso t.p.
Includes bibliographical notes (p. 427-498) and index
Previous ed.: "First published in USA by Harvard Univ. Press 1983. Published by Barnes & Nobel Books 1998"--Verso t.p.
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The mechanical clock was one of the technologial advances that brought Western civilization to a position of world leadership. This book details how and why this breakthrough occured through a historical journey that takes in the 14th-century mechanical revolution, Elizabeth I's finger watch, the success of Swiss watchmakers, fakes and smuggling, and how the "quartz revolution" brought Swiss supremacy to an end.
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