Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Nurse History. Today we're talking about time. Time has a rather

lively history. It's not as simple as you might think. It's not just something that happened to us.

We made time, kind of we did. I'm talking to a horologist and historian David Runeer,

first met David when he was the curator of timekeeping at the Wall Observatory in Greenwich.

He and I walked around London talking about a very remarkable woman Ruth Bellville,

the Greenwich time lady. She used to go out from Greenwich every day, get the boat up into the

city of London and walk around selling the accurate time. Tandy for people to know what time it was.

So she would check her time every morning in Greenwich, she'd go into town and she would sell

the time. That, my friend, is a career that suffered technological disruption. Yes, it did.

Clocks and watches became accurate and porcelain Ruth had to retrain as a programmer, I guess,

I'm not sure. David took me through a history of time and how we've sought to control it,

monitor it, make it ever more precise. And why, of course, it matters. Accurate timekeeping

is at the very root of all of the technological advances of the modern world, you know what I believe

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here's the Harajas, love saying that word. David Rooney, thanks for making the time to listen.

David, thank you very much coming on the podcast. How long have we been able to tell time

accurately with clocks? Well, that's a really good question, because we tend to think of

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