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The Monastery And The Clock
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"The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age." (Mumford, "The Monestary and the Clock", page 326.) represents the thesis of Mumford's "".
Couple of centuries ago it would be hard to find this thesis believable, but in today's world almost everything is driven by the time and ability to measure the ti .... Middle of paper
.... clock working, and the time measuring slowly pushed its way into our everyday lives. At first, only the rich could afford to keep the clock, but little by little everyone started using it until it became a necessity. In today's world it is almost impossible to imagine living without the clock and the ability to tell the time.
If for some reason, all the clocks and time measuring devices would suddenly disappear from our lives, we would find ....
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Number of words: 443
Number of pages: 2 (approx. 250 words per double-spaced page)
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