The history of clocks

Collection title

Passaggio a Nord-Ovest

ID

RAI00370

Source

RAI (IT)

First broadcast date

05/08/2010

Production year

2010

Abstract

Visit with Alberto Angela of the international museum of clocks, located in Switzerland near Zurich. Alberto Angela talks about the meaning of the measurement of time and evokes the history and functioning of clocks through examples from the museum in which some of them date back to the sixteenth century such as clocks, watches, sundials. Explanations of how ancient tools used to measure time in different countries around the world and features of precious watches containing complex mechanisms and decorated by master craftsmen. Illustration of the mathematical precision with the contemporary example of the atomic clock of the Institute Galileo Ferraris of Turin.

Type

video

Production companies

• RAI - Own production

Broadcaster

RAI - RAI Uno

Audiovisual form

Documentary

Primary theme

Physics and mathematics

Secondary themes

• Tourism and cultural sites / Museum

Credits / Cast

• Angela Alberto - Author of original work

Period of events

• From 1500 to 1800

Map locations

• Italy - Western North - Turin

Original language

Italian

Media running time

9m20