Clocks History

importance of clock towers in history of the towns?

First came cathedral towers, when masons and architects mastered the art of raising vertical structures, then the tallest structures possible. Cities and towns then began to construct bell towers, although their purposes were chiefly religious, such as to summon people to mass or to sound the time for prayers. Bell towers also had military value as observation points.

In 12th-13Th. the idea of wage-labor appeared as an alternative to serfdom or slavery in cities. In the 15th c. mechanical clocks were invented and their use spread. Those two creations allowed contract law to develop, and with that, the whole intellectual/commercial enterprises that gave rise to the Italian Renaissance. Venice, for example, soon had over 100 towers in the city. Bell towers were the first devices used to broadcast the units of time for secular, ie, labor, purposes. (The practice still maintained aboard naval vessels to keep time and organized ship's work.)

It was but a step for cities to begin to build clock towers to provide a common, accepted measuring unit for workers and employers to use in defining periods of work. Clocks became the key to Europe's wealth-creating secret of wage-labor, commercial organizations, and the joint-stock enterprise. Bell towers became the most common means for organizing labor and business in cities.

 

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