Where: Bldg. 20 Auditorium
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Description
We are surrounded today by accurate time. We can hear time signals on the radio or look at automatically corrected kitchen clocks. Our home computers are synchronized by the internet or we can pick up the telephone and call the speaking clock. But how did people check the time before all this existed?
In this lively illustrated lecture, David Rooney tells the tale of how precise Greenwich time has increasingly been distributed around Britain, Europe and the world from humble local beginnings in the early nineteenth century. It includes stories of scientists and telephonists, terrorists and horologists, poets and paupers, bombers and bell-ringers, from millionaires and murderers to the Greenwich Time Lady and the Girl with the Golden Voice. Rooney reveals the human faces behind the remorseless tick of the clock.
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David Rooney
Dr David Rooney is an award-winning writer and curator. He was most recently Keeper of Technologies and Engineering at the Science Museum, London, and formerly Curator of Timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. Specialising in the history of time, cities, technology and engineering, David was Lead Curator of the Science Museum's RIBA-award-winning Mathematics: The Winton Gallery (2016), designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, as well as its critically acclaimed exhibition Codebreaker: Alan Turing's Life and Legacy (2012). He is a trustee of three UK horological charities, chair of the Electrical Horology Group, and sits on the management committee of the Clockmakers’ Museum, the oldest clock and watch museum in the world.
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