The History of Timekeeping
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The Telephone Speaking Clock
If you put quartz clocks up into space, they would be wrong by only a billionth of a second. We ask our personal gadgets what time it is, and they speak it out to us. We hear a voice tits says a history too. And i know you're very keen on this, david, the speaking clock. This was really personal to me. So we talking about the telephone speaking clock, whot was first installed in the uk. In the mid 19 30 so you'd phone up and you'd get the exact time read out to you. There's also other women who told the time in the nineteenth century, men as well. But famously, women deserade
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