
The History of Timekeeping
You're Dead to Me
The Great Leap Forward in Technology
Wrist watches were very much gendered in the period up to the nineteenth century. It was war that changed that, and soldiers began strapping them on their wrists. The most accurate clocks are atomic clocks, invented in t 19 fifties. G p s satellites are basically vehicles for flying clocks over our heads all the time. Every gram of payload maden is a clock - they just shoot them out there.
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