Timekeepers How the World Became Obsessed with Time
Timekeepers How the World Became Obsessed with Time Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. The Beatles…
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Timekeepers How the World Became Obsessed with Time
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half.
A US Senator begins a speech that will last for 25 hours. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. The horrors of war are frozen at the click of a camera.
A woman designs a ten-hour clock and reinvents the calendar. Roger Bannister lives out the same four minutes over a lifetime. And a prince attempts to stop time in its tracks.
Timekeepers is a book about our obsession with time and our desire to measure
The Obsessed