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| Author: | TomP [ Mon Feb 23, 2015 10:02 am ] |
| Post subject: | BBC documentary on 'How we got to now: Time' |
Those in the UK might enjoy a documentary screened on BBC2 at the weekend and available on iPlayer for 28 days: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0 ... son-2-time 'How we got to now. 2. Time: From submariners who live on an 18-hour day to the railway clerk who fought to standardise time zones, and the cobbler who invented the first cheap watch, innovation expert Steven Johnson discovers the surprising journey of time in our lives. He locates the unsung heroes whose ideas transformed our world of time from the sundial to clocks accurate to billionths of a second.' Very absorbing documentary: Galileo and pendulums, Christiaan Huygens' pendulum clock, John Harrison and the marine chronometer, Aaron Dennison's Waltham watch factory and the $13 soldier's watch, a $750,000 Patek Philippe minute repeater, railway time, William Allen and the General Time Convention, GMT, atomic time etc etc. |
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| Author: | capeangler [ Mon Feb 23, 2015 7:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC documentary on 'How we got to now: Time' |
The video is only viewable in the UK for some unknown reason. |
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| Author: | TomP [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC documentary on 'How we got to now: Time' |
capeangler wrote: The video is only viewable in the UK for some unknown reason. That's why I started the post with 'Those in the UK might enjoy' etc. (The BBC is funded by a licence fee so various rights agreements prevent it streaming overseas.) |
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| Author: | John90 [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 1:51 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC documentary on 'How we got to now: Time' |
There are ways to view online from overseas if you do a google search |
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| Author: | wessa [ Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC documentary on 'How we got to now: Time' |
John90 wrote: There are ways to view online from overseas if you do a google search Yep, get a VPN proxy server service that will make you look like you are a UK Internet user. Had to resort to these tricks when I was based in Beijng in order to use Youtube, Feacebook, etc... Where there is a will, there is a way 
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| Author: | P51 [ Thu Feb 26, 2015 10:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: BBC documentary on 'How we got to now: Time' |
Series has just started here in Oz on our national broadcaster. First episode was on Clean. A few more episodes to go till we get to Time. Or so it would seem. Can't wait. |
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