Ancient Clocks

• Learn About Sundials
  Egyptians began using a T-shaped "time stick". It consisted of one vertical stick and one crossbar The names of five hours were written on the stick in hieroglyphics. In the morning the stick was placed so that it faced east. The shadow of the crossbar
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• Telling Time With the Sun
  The sundial is the oldest known device for the measurement of time.
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• The Evolution of Time
  Water Clocks In the case of water clocks, water is used as an action to measure time by. Water clocks are one of the oldest ways to measure time. The Greeks began to use water clocks in about 325 B.C.
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• Egypt Calendars and Clocks
  About 3500 B.C., Egyptians created a slender four-sided tapering monument called an obelisk, which cast shadows.
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• http://www.time-for-time.com/clocks.htm
  Types of Clocks
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• World Time Zones - Guides
  The days before clocks, History of time Guide Introduction Man has always strived for ways of measuring the passing of time. In the years before clocks people used a variety of things in order to tell the time.
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• Cleverwares :: History of Time keeping :: When and Why Humans Began to Keep Time
  What is the definition of a clock:
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• History and Origins of the Ship's Bell Clock
  The "Ship's Bell" system of chimes evolved from a crude sand clock dating back to the time of Columbus.
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• Brief History
  The falling sands of time have given modern poets their favorite metaphor for the passing hours. In England, sand glasses were frequently placed in coffins as a symbol that life's time had run out.
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• Science NetLinks: Building a Water Clock
  Building a Water Clock
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• Water Clocks, Water Clock, Rees's Clepsydra 1819
  horological instrument of great antiquity, among the Egyptians and other eastern nations, probably before sun-dials were invented
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• Eternal Egypt - Water Clock
  Water Clock
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• The History of Clocks
  The History of Clocks The history of clocks is very long, and there have been many different types of clocks over the centuries
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• The Water Clock
  Suppose, for example, that one had only a sun-dial about the house; how would one be able to tell time after sunset or on a dark day
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• Clocks and Astronomy
  The earliest clocks were actually the stars and heavens Early mans best clock were the sun, the moon and the stars. This page describes how early man used nature and the heavens as his clock.
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• Clock Origins
  The very sound of the word "clock" gives a clue to its origin. It suggests the striking of the hour upon some bell. The French called the word cloche and the Saxons clugga, and both of these originally meant a bell.
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• The de Vick Clock
  We have seen how de Vick's clock contained, as it were, the germ of all our clocks. A
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• The Sundial
  he formed habits of regularity, it was natural for him to perform a certain daily act when, perhaps, the shadow of a certain tree touched upon a certain stone. This would be a natural sun-dial.
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