On Time
How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock
Carlene E. Stephens(Author)
Little, Brown & Company (Publisher)
Published on 19. August 2002
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-0-8212-2779-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text is based on a popular, permanent exhibition of the same name at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History at the Behring Center in Washington, DC, which is visited by six million people annually. The exhibit is curated by author Carlene Stephens, and here she includes the colourful stories of inventors and entrepreneurs who introduced the technologies by which we measure our lives, from the first modern timepieces in the early 18th century to the invention of standardized time in the late 19th century and the digitization of time in the late 20th century.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
colour and b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 239 mm
Weight
1295 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8212-2779-4 (9780821227794)
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Person
Carlene E. Stephens is the curator of the History of Technology Division, NMAH. She has presented at professional meetings at the Science Museum in London, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and the annual meetings of Society for History and Technology.