About time: a history of civilization in twelve clocks

Introduction: Korean Air Lines Flight 007, 1983

Order : sundial at the Forum, Rome, 263 BCE

Faith : Castle Clock, Diyār Bakr, 1206

Virtue : the hourglass of Temperance, Siena, 1338

Markets : stock exchange clock, Amsterdam, 1611

Knowledge : Samrat Yantra, Jaipur, 1732-35

Empires : observatory time ball, Cape Town, 1833

Manufacture : Gog and Magog, London, 1865

Morality : electric time system, Brno, 1903-6

Resistance : telescope driving-clock, Edinburgh, 1913

Identity : golden telephone handsets, London, 1935

War : miniature atomic clocks, Munich, 1972

Peace : plutonium timekeeper, Osaka, 6970.