In our History of the World told through things ... This programme is about time, and our object is a clock - a marine chronometer made around 1800. But the point of this clock wasn't so much ...

In our History of the World told through things ... This programme is about time, and our object is a clock - a marine chronometer made around 1800. But the point of this clock wasn't so much ...

This programme is about time, and our object is a clock - a marine chronometer ... Nigel Thrift: "The chronometer, in a sense, is the pinnacle of a long history of clock- making.