How do you tell the time by your wrist watch or perhaps a pocket watch or by looking at your phone or maybe your realigned state or nearby church bells or a regular train with the passage of the sun I m Bridget Kendall and today we re going to explore the history of how we tell the time. Many of us probably take time keeping for granted in the modern world were many ways to keep track of the 2nd. I m not sure tools to measure the passage of time around us from water dripping into it fills the bow to the time it takes our planet to revolve on its axis but when did human time keeping the start. And how did it move from the early approximations of sundials. To the precision of modern atomic clocks and today s almost unbelievably accurate optical clocks and how would our daily lives have changed if suddenly timepieces ground to a halt. Joining me to share the knowledge with us here in the studio Dr Louise devoid the curator of the Royal Observatory Greenwich in the u.k. Home of the Greenw
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