https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:783 Die synchronisierte Stadt: Öffentliche Uhren und Zeitwahrnehmung, Wien 1850 bis heute Payer, Peter Peter Payer Holzhausen text Austrian Science Fund (FWF) PUB 286 deu The work at hand explores the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Viennas public clocks from the middle of the 19th century until today. The need for knowing the exact time steadily increased since the middle of the 19th century. As two centuries ago the clocks had only hour hands, the minute hands soon became essential. Industrialisation, urbanisation, but primarily the rapid development of the railroading promoted the trend towards the modern time management of the society. Schedules demanded a higher precision of time specification; circulations of goods and persons had to be adjusted to each other; professional and private activities became standardised, tacted and adjusted to the abstract rhythm of the clocks. The knowledge about the social and economic value of time became a central criterion for the level of western civilisation. Especially the members of the middle-class got more and more used to a chronometer. It was a high goodness for them to use their time as efficient as possible. Pocket watches and wrist watches became familiar and also the number of public clocks continously increased. Especially the more and more complex organised cities became pioneers in the sphere of public timepiece. The work at hand explores, for the first time in the German-speaking historical research, the successive chronometrisation of public space using the example of Vienna from the middle of the 19th century until today. On the one hand it deals with the “exterior chronometrisation“, that is the visible aggregation of the infrastructure of time and the construction of different kinds of clocks. Spatial, architectural and design related aspects were argued, contexts of technical history as the search for the ideal drive system and of the political and representative functions of public clocks were discussed. On the other hand it deals with the “interior chronometrisation“ which means social, psychological and cultural aspects of the perception of time and their contextualisation in phenomena of scaling and standardisation on a local basis to a world scale. The actual trend of visualising public time to the split second marks the (temporary) end of the development which shows the speedup of all areas of life in a visible and sensible way. Das vorliegende Werk beleuchtet das vielschichtige Wechselverhältnis von Stadt und Zeit. Ursachen und Auswirkungen der urbanen „Chronometrisierung“ werden am Beispiel der öffentlichen Uhren Wiens von der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts bis heute dargestellt. Öffentliche Uhren, Synchronisation, Zeitwahrnehmung, Stadtgeschichte, Geschichte von Wien, Europäische Geschichte ÖFOS -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Historische Wissenschaften (65) -- Stadtgeschichte (6525) ÖFOS -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Historische Wissenschaften (65) -- Kulturgeschichte (6527) ÖFOS -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Historische Wissenschaften (65) -- Sozialgeschichte (6518) ÖFOS -- GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTEN (6) -- Historische Wissenschaften (65) -- Zeitgeschichte (6522) Public clocks, Synchronisation of time, Urban history, Perception of time, History of Vienna, European history ÖFOS -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Historical Sciences (65) -- Urban history (6525) ÖFOS -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Historical Sciences (65) -- Cultural history (6527) ÖFOS -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Historical Sciences (65) -- Social history (6518) ÖFOS -- HUMANITIES (6) -- Historical Sciences (65) -- Contemporary history (6522) BIC Standard Subject Categories -- Humanities (H) -- History (HB) -- History: specific events & topics (HBT) -- Social & cultural history (HBTB) BIC Standard Subject Categories -- Humanities (H) -- History (HB) -- Regional & national history (HBJ) -- European history (HBJD) BIC Standard Subject Categories -- Technology, engineering, agriculture (T) -- Industrial chemistry & manufacturing technologies (TD) -- Other manufacturing technologies (TDP) -- Precision instruments manufacture (TDPB) -- Clocks, chronometers & watches (horology) (TDPB1) BIC Standard Subject Categories -- The arts (A) -- History of art / art & design styles (AC) -- History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - (ACX) BIC Standard Subject Categories -- The arts (A) -- Architecture (AM) -- Landscape art & architecture (AMV) -- City & town planning - architectural aspects (AMVD) BIC Standard Subject Categories -- Mathematics & science (P) -- Astronomy, space & time (PG) -- Time (chronology), time systems & standards (PGZ) ÖFOS ÖFOS ÖFOS ÖFOS ÖFOS ÖFOS ÖFOS ÖFOS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/at/ https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/api/object/o:783/download 978-3-902868-53-4 application/pdf 1850 – 2015, Wien/Österreich/Zentraleuropa 1850 – 2015, Vienna/Austria/Central Europe 12.74 MB 2015-05