9 min listen
ratings:
Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Feb 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
There’s no such thing as “the correct time”. Like the value of money, it’s a convention that derives its usefulness from the widespread acceptance of others. But there is such a thing as accurate timekeeping. That dates from 1656, and a Dutchman named Christiaan Huygens. In the centuries since, as Tim Harford explains, the clock has become utterly essential to almost every area of the modern economy.
Producer: Ben Crighton
Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon
(Image: A wall clock. Credit: Shutterstock)
Producer: Ben Crighton
Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon
(Image: A wall clock. Credit: Shutterstock)
Released:
Feb 18, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Compiler: Installing Windows might take 5,000 years without it by 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy