David Rooney – Alexis Madrigal
David Rooney is an author, a historian, and a physicist. Alexis Madrigal is a journalist, an interview host, and an entrepreneur. We found 1 podcast interview connecting David Rooney and Alexis Madrigal.
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Episodes with David Rooney & Alexis Madrigal
Alexis Madrigal
+ Mina Kim
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David Rooney
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19 Aug 2021
• EN
David Rooney on Why It’s ‘About Time’ to Understand How Clocks Shaped Civilization
"For thousands of years, time has been harnessed, politicized and weaponized," writes technology historian and horologist David Rooney in his new book, "About Time." Rooney examines a dozen timekeepers from sundials and hourglasses to the atomic clocks on satellites that create GPS. In doing so, he traces time's role i