Physical description

a small book of 21.5 cm; 160p

Publication type

non-fiction

Summary

This book is about how Australia learned to tell the time. It is a story, not just about clocks, but about people who used them. From the beginnings of European settlement, Australians were as clockwise as any people on earth; indeed, the navigators and the military officers who laid the foundations of Australian settlement were contemporary experts in the measurement of time. But it was only gradually, as society disposed rather than as technology proposed, that the majority of Australians came to order their everyday lives by the clock.