How Clocks Created Earth’s First Global Supply Chain in the 1700s – And Keep GPS Alive Today
History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 1:07.0 | History is in just a bunch of names, and dates and facts. |
| 1:10.0 | It's the collection of all the stories throughout human history that explain how and why we got here. |
| 1:15.0 | Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast, where we look at the forgotten, neglected, strange, and even counterfactual stories that made our world what it is. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm your host, Scott Rank. |
| 1:39.0 | When I was in graduate school, I wrote a 50-page research paper about clocks in the autumn and the end of the year. |
| 1:43.5 | Now, depending on how horrifying you find the idea of doing something like that to be, is a good let-mus test on whether or not you should do a graduate program in history. |
| 1:51.5 | The research I did, I'm sure it was very dry, but it wasn't just a book or a poor about different clocks that appeared in the empire. |
| 1:57.5 | But as discovered, is that clocks reveal all sorts of very interesting things about human civilization. |
| 2:02.5 | First of all, there's a question of why technology appears in the first place. |
| 2:07.0 | The phrase necessity is the mother of invention is sometimes true. |
| 2:11.0 | Some theorists think that the reason that you see clocked hours appear in medieval Europe is because as cities are growing and where cantonism takes hold, |
| 2:21.0 | timekeepers need a way to commodify time and pay people for a job that takes less than a day but more than an instant, so you need to develop something like an hourly wage. |
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