Deep Time: The Tyranny of Time
TTBOOK Presents: Deep Time
00:00
The History of Clocks
David Rooney has been listening to clocks and their stories ever since. He was a curator at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, that's home of Greenwich Meantime. And he's written one of the best books I know on the history of clocks. It's called About Time,. In which he makes the case that from ancient sundials to satellites orbiting Earth, clocks have always been about one thing. Power.
Transcript
Play full episode
