clock Punctuality Timeline of historic inventions Timeline of time measurement technology References Further reading The Discoverers – Daniel J. Boorstin Theory Out of Bounds – Isabelle Stengers/Ilya Prigogine Order out of Chaos – Ilya Prigogine Multifractals and 1/f noise – Benoît Mandelbrot Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time ( Studies in Literature and Science) – Michel Serres; et al. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions – Thomas S. Kuhn Technics and Civilization – Lewis Mumford Landes, David: Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World: (Belknap/Harvard, 1983) Aveni, Anthony: Empires of Time: Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures: (Basic Books, 1989) Thompson, EP: Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism. Past & Present 38(1), 56–97 (1967) External links 24-hour analog clocks 1773 town in Scotland orders clock without minute hand Quotes About Time Passing Huygens' clocks Early Clock Face with separate minute dial BBC article on shortest time ever measured (10−16 seconds) as of 2004. Upside Down and Backwards: Time Discipline in a Canadian Inuit Town by Pamela Stern of the University of Waterloo. Horology Anthropology Timekeeping Sociological terminology