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A disassembled grandfather clock goes through a test run to check alignment and function. Common people first began learning arithmetic on a wide scale, Landes writes, in order to tell the time.

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Superradiant atoms could help us measure time more precisely than ever before, a theory developed with the aid of the great-grandson of the "father of the atom," Niels Bohr.

“So, he figured if he did a grandfather clock, the driver’s wife would like it, too, and it would be put in a prominent place in their home. That holds true today. But that was the origin of it.