On Time. How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock - Tapa dura

Stephens, Carlene

 
9780821227794: On Time. How America Has Learned to Live by the Clock
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ISBN 10: 0821227793 ISBN 13: 9780821227794
Editorial: Little, Brown & Company, 2002

Sinopsis

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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Acerca del autor

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.

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Editorial
Little, Brown & Company
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0821227793
ISBN 13 
9780821227794
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
260
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