num_pages: 544
description: 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.
language: English
title: Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
titlecomplete: Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
genres: Historical, History, Science, Reference, Economics, Philosophy, Technology, The World, World History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 165
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: Belknap Press