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When Clocks Learned to Kill: The Untold True Stories of How Navigation, Timekeeping, and the Search for Position Became the Technologies of Remote War

When Clocks Learned to Kill: The Untold True Stories of How Navigation, Timekeeping, and the Search for Position Became the Technologies of Remote War


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A chronometer. A compass. A GPS satellite. All began as tools to find the way home. All became instruments of war.

A Phoenician sailor reads the stars over an empty sea. A medieval astronomer in Baghdad engraves the sky onto brass. A Yorkshire clockmaker spends forty years solving the longitude problem. Two physicists listen to a beeping Soviet satellite in 1957 and ask the question whose answer becomes GPS.

From these beginnings - and a hundred others like them - When Clocks Learned to Kill traces the unbroken five-thousand-year line between ancient celestial navigation and the coordinates that guide precision weapons in modern warfare.

This is the untold history of how humanity learned to answer the oldest question: Where am I? - and how that answer, again and again, became a weapon.


  • The Phoenicians who used the stars to build the ancient world's first trade empire

  • The Islamic astronomers who saved Greek mathematics and invented the astrolabe

  • John Harrison, the carpenter's son who solved the longitude problem that killed 2,000 sailors in a single night

  • The Polish mathematicians who cracked Enigma before Bletchley Park existed

  • The six women who programmed ENIAC - and were erased from history for decades

  • The physicists who listened to Sputnik's Doppler shift and invented satellite navigation by accident

  • The drone operator in eastern Ukraine whose weapon traces back to a Phoenician night sky

For readers of Dava Sobel's Longitude, Simon Winchester's The Map That Changed the World, and David Mindell's War, Technology and Experience.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798181121188
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 274
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Untold True Stories of How Navigation, Timekeeping, and the Search for Position Became the Technologies of Remote War
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 818112118X
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 421 gr


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