David Rooney

David Rooney, PhD

www.davidrooney.uk
3 Interviews

David Rooney's Interviews

Greg Jenner & Desiree Burch + David Rooney 26 Aug 2022 • EN

The History of Timekeeping

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr David Rooney and Desiree Burch at the literal beginning of time to explore the history of timekeeping. Covering everything from the origins of timekeeping to time in space, we even learn how you can smell the time! Above all, we finally find out who you can blame for daylight savings and the

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Alexis Madrigal + Mina Kim & David Rooney 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

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Dan Snow & David Rooney 20 Jul 2021 • EN

How Timekeeping Changed the World

Accurate timekeeping is at the very root of all of the technological advances in the modern world, but how did it all begin? From Roman sundials to medieval water-clocks, people of all cultures have made and used clocks for thousands of years. Dan speaks to horologist, historian and former curator of timekeeping at the

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