TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephens,Carlene E.
TI  - On time: how America has learned to live by the clock 
SN  - 0821227793
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - [Washington, D.C.]
PB  - Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center
KW  - Clocks and watches
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Time measurements
KW  - fast
KW  - Sociology
KW  - USA
KW  - Time timekeeping
KW  - Stephens, Carlene E
KW  - Time
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-248) and index; Introduction -- Telling time 1700-1820 -- Mechanizing time 1820-1880 -- Synchronizing time 1880-1920 -- Saving time 1920-1960 -- Expanding time 1960 to the present
N2  - This volume presents an illustrated history of the ways Americans have measured used, and thought about time over the past 300 years. It showcases unusual timepieces from the Smithsonian Institution's collection such as Helen Keller's pocket watch and the earliest bedside alarm clocks, and brings to life some of the lesser-known characters and events that have shaped the way we think about time today. The author demonstrates how time also shaped our whole concept of American society, and how clever men and women took ideas and created institutions that were (are are) time-driven. This started in the agricultural fields of the earliest settlers, loosely bound to a sundial, then to town bells, to tick-tock clocks, to watches, and now cesium clocks good to one second every 20 million years
ER  -