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The clock, not the steam-engine, is the key-machine of the modern industrial age.

Lewis Mumford

1934

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1934

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Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. Harcourt, Brace and Company/Routledge, 1934, ch. 1, sect. 2.

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