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A water clock or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal' and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water'; lit. ' water thief ' ) is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount ...
Water clock (representing a clock at the royal court in Paris, c.1250) The first innovations to improve on the accuracy of the hourglass and the water clock occurred in the 10th century, when attempts were made to slow their rate of flow using friction or the force of gravity. [78]
1 Overview of water clocks and other time instruments. 2 Arabic & Islamic water clocks. 3 Babylonian water clocks. 4 Chinese water clocks. 5 Egyptian water clocks.
Modern water clock by Bernard Gitton Bernard Gitton ( French pronunciation: [bɛʁnaʁ ʒitɔ̃] ); born 24 June 1935 [ 1 ] ) is a French physicist and artist who has built modern water clocks , fountains and other devices relating art and science.
[32] [33] Early verge clocks were probably no more accurate than the previous water clocks, [16] but they did not require water to be manually hauled to fill the reservoir, did not freeze in winter, and were a more promising technology for innovation. By the mid-17th century, when the pendulum replaced the foliot, the best verge and foliot ...
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An analog pendulum clock made around 18th century. A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, and the year.
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