Summary of David Rooney's About Time

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Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life.

Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari's castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years.