The Refusal of Time: Machines

1.

Optical Telegraph, 1803.

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K, the World’s Standard Kilogram, and its “Witnesses”.

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Pneumatic Time, Paris Control Room, circa 1880.

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4.

Pneumatic Mail, London, 1930.

5.

Pneumatic Clock, Engraving, 1879.

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6.

Neuchâtel Master Clock, 1924.

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Horloge pneumatique mère, 1885.

Horloge pneumatique réceptrice, Charles Bourdon, 1885.

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8.

Sanford Fleming, World Time, 1889.

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Clock at the Porter’s Lodge, Greenwich Observatory, 1900.

10.

Time Desk, Greenwich Observatory, 1900.

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11.

The Great Equatorial Telescope, Greenwich Observatory, 1877.

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Measuring Light, Fizeau, 1857.

Experimental set-up.

Gearing mechanism.

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Measuring Light, Fizeau, toothed wheel, 1857.

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Light in the Ether?

Michelson-Morley Interferometer, 1881.

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15.

Sonograph.

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