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The Oldest Sundial Known So Far Is From Is From Egypt Around 1,500 B.C. They Were Also The First Devices To Be Used For Measuring The Time/Parts Of The Day.
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The Candle Clock Was Mentioned Earliest In A Chinese Poem Written In 520 A.D. It Told The Time By The Measured Rate Of Burn And Was Used At Night.
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The Clock Was Called A Clepsydra And Was More Convenient Than The Sundial. Though It Was Better, It Was Less Accurate And Was Improved To Be More Accurate In 325 B.C.
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Hourglasses Were The First Some-What Accurate, Reasonable, Recyclable, And Easily Made Time Telling Devices. They Were Used Mostly Used To Tell Time Out At Sea.
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One Of The First Medieval European Clock Creators Were Christian Monks. The First Clock Recorded Was Built By Pope Sylvester II Somewhere Around 996. Peter Lightfoot Was A 14th Century Monk That Built One Of The Oldest Clocks And Is At London's Science Museum To This Very Day.
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In 1504, Peter Heinlein Created The Portable Yet Not-Very-Accurate Wrist Watch In Nuremberg, Germany. Blaise Pascal, A French Mathematician and Philosopher, Was The First Recorded Person To Wear The Invention. Fun Fact, He Used A Piece Of String To Attach The Pocket Watch To His Wrist.
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Jost Bürgi Created The Minute Hand. It Was Part Of A Clock Made For The Astronomer Tycho Brahe Who Needed An Accurate Clock For Stargazing.
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The Pendulum Clock Was Created By Christiaan Huygens, A Mathematician From The Netherlands In 1656. It Was The Best Clock For Time Keeping Because Of Its Accuracy. Originally, He Wanted To Create A Clock For Ships But, After Several Experiments, The Clock Would Not Work Properly On A Ship.
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The First Mechanical Alarm Clock Was Created By American Clock Maker Levi Hutchins In 1787. Though, The Ringing Bell On His Clock Could Only Ring At 4:00 AM.
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Standard Time Was Invented By Sir Sanford Fleming In The Year 1878. Standard Time Is The Synchronization Of Clocks In A Certain Area. In The 20th Century, Each Geographical Area Had Their Own Time Zone.
