Read the excerpt from Ship's Chronometer from HMS
Beagle.
Before long the whole of Britain was running by the
clock, and the measurement of time had been
severed from the natural cycle of days and seasons.
The clock ruled every aspect of life - shops and
schools, pleasure and work. As Charles Dickens
wrote, 'There was even railway time observed in
clocks, as if the sun itself had given in.' Nigel Thrift
explains:
The chronometer, an exceptionally accurate
clock, meant that gradually an ever more
accurate measure of time became possible, and
that of course worked through other things in the
nineteenth century to produce ever more
standardized time. A good example of that is the
railway, where standard time based on the
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