About time : (Record no. 3707)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2021025193
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780393867930
Qualifying information hardcover
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0393867935
Qualifying information hardcover
024 8# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 40030697669
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System control number (OCoLC)1196176453
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Original cataloging agency LBSOR/DLC
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049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC)
Holding library HRSA
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rooney, David,
Dates associated with a name 1974-
Relator term author.
Authority record control number or standard number http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009148106
9 (RLIN) 7698
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title About time :
Remainder of title a history of civilization in twelve clocks /
Statement of responsibility, etc. David Rooney.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement First American edition.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture New York, NY :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer W. W. Norton and Company,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2021.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 271 pages :
Other physical details illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm
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Content type term text
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500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note First published in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983 -- Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE -- Faith : Castle Clock, Diyār Bakr, 1206 -- Virtue : the hourglass of Temperance, Siena, 1338 -- Markets : stock exchange clock, Amsterdam, 1611 -- Knowledge : Samrat Yantra, Jaipur, 1732-35 -- Empires : observatory time ball, Cape Town, 1833 -- Manufacture : Gog and Magog, London, 1865 -- Morality : electric time system, Brno, 1903-6 -- Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913 -- Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935 -- War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972 -- Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives-and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries-and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization"--
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Materials specified 31560000065124
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Clocks and watches
General subdivision History.
Authority record control number or standard number http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101137
9 (RLIN) 7530
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Horology
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Time
General subdivision Social aspects
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650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Civilization.
Authority record control number or standard number http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85026423
9 (RLIN) 6437
775 08 - OTHER EDITION ENTRY
Relationship information Reproduction of (manifestation):
Main entry heading Rooney, David, 1974-
Title About time
Place, publisher, and date of publication London : Viking, 2021
International Standard Book Number 9780241370490
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