Temporalities and technological imaginaries in the modern city. The public clocks in Rosario, Argentina

The processes of construction the modern city developed through linkages with various technological imaginaries. Thinking that the presence of certain artifacts in cities is part of their cultural capital and is linked to various aspects of their identity, the focus will be on analyzing the significances acquires the time in the modernity. To approach these relationships will explore the process of incorporation of public clocks of Rosario's city, where the imperative of progress, tied to the speed, movement and punctuality, gathers strength in the second half of the 19th century and they extend across great part of the 20th century.