history of time

By awsomktrone
  • the first way to tell time
    5000 BCE

    the first way to tell time

    the mesopotamians used to look at the sun stars and moon to tell time instead of looking at a object like we do they looked at the position OF THEM AND TOLD THE TIME
  • sundial
    3500 BCE

    sundial

    some time later the sundial was created by the egyptiation civilisation it got very famous at 1500 bce the sundial could also be called shadow clock
  • the water clock
    1600 BCE

    the water clock

    the water clock was invented by the egyptians it was very accurate and it was somewhat like a hour glass except the used water instead of sand and a bucket instead of a glass
  • hourglass
    150 BCE

    hourglass

    soon after glass was invented ancient india/ indus valley created the hourglass the hour glass was a esier way to tell time it soon got famous after its creation it soon came after the invention of glass
  • incence clock
    6 BCE

    incence clock

    early incense cloak was in the 6 to 8 century all seem to have a Devanagari on it instead of ancient chines script an American historian named edward schefer claims that it was an Indian invention transmitted to china
  • candle clock
    6 BCE

    candle clock

    the candle clock was used to tell time in china from the 6 century people say king Alfred the grate created the candle clock
  • mechanical clock
    1400

    mechanical clock

    in the early to mid 14 century several mechanical clocks were found on towers of many Italian cites nobody knows how many different type of models were there they soon spread around the world like big ben
  • spring powered clocks
    1500

    spring powered clocks

    this was the first portabale clock made the advantages of this were This allowed for smaller clocks that people could put on a table or shelf instade of walls
  • pendulem

    pendulem

    the pendulum clock uses a swinging weight as its time keeping element it was created Christiaan Huygens in 1656 until the 1930 it was the most precise time keeping device

  • analog

    the digital analog clock is the most advance and accurate clock till now it can be minimized to a watch

  • qartz clack

    most cars have quartz clock which are able to tell time while traveling time zones before clocks only told time according to their set time zone and were now use while travailing

  • maratime clock / chrone meter

    in the 18 Ce john Harrison refined graham's ( a famous clock maker) method and also found a way to make less friction and created a chrone meter witch could tell time and sence a movement