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03892aam a2200493 i 4500 001 95307588F9A011EB85B6CD7523ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210810010244 008 210606r20212021nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021025193 020 $a 0393867935 020 $a 9780393867930 035 $a (OCoLC)1196176453 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d CMI $d OCLCF $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 681.1/13 $2 23 100 1 $a Rooney, David, $d 1974- $e author. 245 10 $a About time : $b a history of civilization in twelve clocks / $c David Rooney. 246 30 $a History of civilization in twelve clocks 250 $a First American edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton & Company, $c 2021. 300 $a ix, 271 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 -- Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE -- Faith : Castle Clock, DiyaÌr 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. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Clocks and watches $x History. 650 0 $a Horology $x History. 650 0 $a Time $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Civilization. 941 $a 12 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240710054711.0 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020355.0 952 $l SUPC124 $d 20240322010145.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010024130.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203070812.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064851.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630013651.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20211215033219.0 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20211130011939.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20211102020745.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20210910010407.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210810011518.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=95307588F9A011EB85B6CD7523ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search