Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
David S. Landes
This book on the cultural, technological, and manufacturing aspects of measuring time and making clocks is expanded here with a new preface and updated passages exploring findings about medieval and early-modern time keeping, as well as contemporary hi-tech uses of the watch as mini-computer, cellular phone, and even radio receiver or TV screen.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Belknap Press
- Year
- 2000
- ISBN-13
- 9780674002821
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- History of timekeepingClockmaking technologyIndustrialization and modernity
Awards
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1983)
If you liked Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, you could also like these
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester
0 wins · 3 score
The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
Stewart Brand (editor)
1 win · 12 score
Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
Joshua B. Freeman
0 wins · 3 score
The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century
Claude C. Albritton
0 wins · 4 score
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement From Cubits to Quantum Constants
James Vincent
0 wins · 3 score
From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
Jacques Barzun
0 wins · 4 score
Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World
Roy Porter
1 win · 8 score
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith
James H. Billington
0 wins · 4 score
The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550–1700: An Interpretation
Robert Evans
1 win · 8 score
The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350
Robert Bartlett
1 win · 8 score
God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science
James Hannam
0 wins · 3 score
American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870–1970
Thomas P. Hughes
0 wins · 4 score
The Wheels of Commerce
Fernand Braudel
1 win · 8 score
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
2 wins · 25 score
The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes
1 win · 8 score