The clock is not merely a means of keeping track of the hours, but of synchronizing the actions of men. The clock, not the steam engine, is the key machine of the industrial age […] In its relationship to determinable quantities of energy, to standardization, to automatic action, and finally to its own special product, accurate timing., the clock has been the formost machine in modern technic; and at each period it has remained in the lead: it marks a perfection toward which other machines aspire.
Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
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