Electrical Timekeeping
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Author | : F. Hope-Jones |
Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1447498917 |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author | : Kenneth Mondschein |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2020-09-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1421438283 |
An approachable, accessible history of timekeeping and the impact of the increasing precision and accuracy of time on humanity. Western culture has been obsessed with regulating society by the precise, accurate measurement of time since the Middle Ages. In On Time, Ken Mondschein explores the paired development of concepts and technologies of timekeeping with human thought. Without clocks, he argues, the modern world as we know it would not exist. From the astronomical timekeeping of the ancient world to the tower clocks of the Middle Ages to the seagoing chronometer, the quartz watch, and the atomic clock, greater precision and accuracy have had profound effects on human society—which, in turn, has driven the quest for further precision and accuracy. This quest toward automation—which gave rise to the Gregorian calendar, the factory clock, and even the near-disastrous Y2K bug—has led to profound social repercussions and driven the creation of the modern scientific mindset. Surveying the evolution of the clock from prehistory to the twenty-first century, Mondschein explains how both the technology and the philosophy behind Western timekeeping regimes came to take over the entire world. On Time is a story of thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, and of the thousand decisions that continue to shape our daily lives.
Author | : Samuel L. Macey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2018-10-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0429685130 |
Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.
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Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Electrical engineering |
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Author | : Various Authors |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1519 |
Release | : 2021-03-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0429685262 |
Reissuing five works originally published between 1937 and 1991, this collection contains books addressing the subject of time, from a mostly philosophic point of view but also of interest to those in the science and mathematics worlds. These texts are brought back into print in this small set of works addressing how we think about time, the history of the philosophy of time, the measurement of time, theories of relativity and discussions of the wider thinking about time and space, among other aspects. One volume is a thorough bibliography collating references on the subject of time across many disciplines.
Author | : P. Beer |
Publisher | : Elsevier |
Total Pages | : 653 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1483160912 |
Author | : Graeme Gooday |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2016-09-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 082298170X |
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
Author | : David Rooney |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393867943 |
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.
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Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Aeronautics |
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Author | : Barney Warf |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2008-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134113935 |
This volume explores the multiple ways in which people experience time-space compression in varying historical and geographical circumstances. Including economic, cultural, social, political and psychological dimensions of time-space compression.