"**The [[Industrial Revolution]] is usually attributed to the invention of the steam engine**; but as [[Lewis Mumford|Mumford]] shows in his 1934 magnum opus, Technics and Civilization, **it also probably couldn’t have happened without the clock**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[teaching-anecdotes]], [[innovation]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]