Like before the Internet/tv/radio etc how the hell did people organise anything or do anything on time? How did they synchronise their clocks?
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In Edinburgh, Scotland. we had a royal observatory on a hill in the centre of the city which used observations to set their clock to the correct time.
Then there was a ball on top of a tower on the hill that would drop at 1PM, it’s where the New York New Year ball drop comes from.
Then a person in Edinburgh castle which is on an extinct volcano in the city centre would see the ball drop and fire a cannon, so the people of Edinburgh and the ships in the docks could set their clocks, so pretty boring normal stuff.
They still fire the cannon every day at 1PM, but it’s more a tourist thing now.
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