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Ancient Greek clocks to today's clocks

By ndill
  • "Proportional" ceramic clepsydra
    4000 BCE

    "Proportional" ceramic clepsydra

    the clepsydra formed by inclined walls which hold water it slowly leek
    to the bottom.
  • Portable rod-like sundial
    1504 BCE

    Portable rod-like sundial

    The rod-like sundial has a scale with 5 incision horizontal bar, it has 5 daily hours (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) if you turn it to west it still has the 5 but you will have (7, 8,9, 10, 11) and if you turn it east you will have 6.
  • Anaximandros sundial
    600 BCE

    Anaximandros sundial

    On the hemispherical sundial there is 11 hours lines and 12 hours in the day, to shore the time is the shadow from vertical gnomon top.
  • Portable ringed sundial
    500 BCE

    Portable ringed sundial

    The ring bears there is a hole, and around it there is 12 equal parts which defines the 12 hours.
  • Introduction
    300 BCE

    Introduction

    In Ancient Greek they used there noes to tell time when it was the 6th cent. The days ware divided into 12 hours and the years ware divided into 12 parts.
  • The alarm clock of Aristotle
    285 BCE

    The alarm clock of Aristotle

    the alarm clock was used to wake up on time for things with out being late.
  • Quandrandal sundial
    14 BCE

    Quandrandal sundial

    It is a half of a concave hemisphere. It is vary clever that they puu a front base of the dial and the gnomon that use's the sun to make the shadow to point at the time.
  • Hemispherical sundial
    1437

    Hemispherical sundial

    Two uneven horizontal gnomons that are placed on opposite sides. The hour lines are split up in equal sides.
  • Cut spherical sundial

    Cut spherical sundial

    It is lighter then hemispheric sundial, and since it is cut in haft it is a lot more fragile then the other sundials.
  • Hemispherical sundial with a hole on the roof

    Hemispherical sundial with a hole on the roof

    a net of 11 hour lines, and it defines 12 hours of the day with help of a spot from the sunlight that go's throw a tiny hole in the roof.
  • analog clock

    analog clock

    we use these still to tell time and we need batters. but it is better then the digital clocks because when the power go's out the clock still on.
  • digital clock

    digital clock

    For these kinds of clocks all we need to do is look at it and it will shore you the time, but the bad thing is that when the power go's out so dos the clock.