Mohamed is going to transfer to a less easily startled school, the President invited him to the White House and he’s been asked to attend the Google Science Fair taking place during the next few days in California. Hey, it was ticking, wasn’t it, this recapitulation of the work that helped make the modern, science-driven world? Because the adults present thought it could be a bomb. It’s therefore particularly ironic that 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed got yanked out of his Texas 9th grade classroom September 14th, handcuffed, interrogated, and eventually suspended, for having brought to school a clock he’d built himself.
Boorstin, who served as the director of the National Museum of History and Technology of the Smithsonian Institution went on to write, “The clock broke down the walls between kinds of knowledge, ingenuity, and skill, and clockmakers were the first consciously to apply the theories of mechanics and physics to the making of machines…clockmakers became the pioneer scientific-instrument makers.” “It was destined to be the mother of machines.” The “it” Daniel Boorstin talks about in his 1983 book The Discoverers is the clock.
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