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The Unforgiving Minute
Graeme Davison
其他書名
How Australia Learned to Tell the Time
出版Oxford University Press, 1993
主題Reference / GeneralSocial Science / Human Geography
ISBN01955349649780195534962
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e4e3AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In asking how Australia learned to tell the time, Graeme Davison uncovers a surprising story. From ship's chronometers to digital clocks, from time-balls to time pips, from dreamtime to flexitime, clocks and time-keeping have been the quiet revolutionaries of Australian history. As the convict era drew to an end, the colonial governors looked to clocks as the mechanical policemen of an emerging free society. Fifty years later, as railways and telegraphs began to spread across the land, and pocket watches appeared on the waistcoats of working men, colonial society began to keep stricter hours of work and play, and to teach its children the virtue of punctuality.