Why Is The Clock Important To The Industrial Revolution

The Clock’s Impact The invention of the clock helped to bring a massive change not only in America but other countries around the world. However, it was not until the Industrial Revolution that they began to receive popularity due to its efficiency in being able to tell when the steam train would arrive. In class, we talked about the influence trains had on time and how it impacted people to direct their schedule according to the change in time rather than looking up to the sun. Trains were a major improvement in reducing the time needed to reach a certain point or destination, and helped to bring a new type of transportation that was not only fast but efficient as well. The clock helped people to adapt to the new change and ease them in the process of getting comfortable with work from that point on. Steam boats were another type of transportation which helped to reduce the time traveled on water by half, to an average of two weeks which greatly impacted people’s ability to move around freely to different locations. In 1840 Samuel Conrad’s steamship line brought a new wave of regular trans-Atlantic steamship services which issued arrival and departure dates beforehand making things easier for those were looking

It also seems to have Roman numeral numbers around it ranging from one to twelve and repeating once again completing the twenty four hour cycle in the exterior part of the clock. There are also three arrows pointing at different number intervals which make the basis of the time. I feel that the reason it goes up to ten maybe due to France implanting the ten day week with a one day of break which not many people were too happy as we talked about in class. However there maybe another reason such as how easy it was dealing with the number ten compared to