It is no ordinary clock, the 200 Water Street clock is an art installation created by the artist [Rudolph de Harak], and consists of 72 lighted numbers which are illuminated in sequence to show ...

MR. OVERTON has given us a most useful and interesting volume, describing the gradual evolution of timepieces from the early water clocks, through the balance clock, down to the modern pendulum ...

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The authors posit that mechanical clocks could have developed in response to that curiosity and, perhaps, also out of a familiarity with other technologies, such as astrolabes and water clocks ...

3. Clepsydras – not a nasty skin condition, but another kind of clock! Clepsydras, or water clocks, tracked the passage of time by regulating the flow of water from one vessel to another.

water, clock is an interpretation of the velocity of our modern world. Through layering of images, sounds and text, the film explores how rapidly human society has been moving for the last century ...