The evolution of the clock.By:Jessica

By Jessica Hunter
  • The second clock made
    2000 BCE

    The second clock made

    At about 2000-1,500 BC, the Egyptians began dividing the days and nights into 12 almost equal parts. Astonishingly enough, this division of time remained until today, after being adopted by the Greeks and later on by the Romans.
  • The First Clock
    1300 BCE

    The First Clock

    The first clock was invented in 1300 BC by the Egyptians.
  • The third clock
    150 BCE

    The third clock

    One successor of the water clock is the hour glass, which researchers believe was invented in 150 B.C at Alexandria. It didn’t really “catch on” until the beginning of the “Discovery Age” in the 14th century, when Europeans began sailing frequently across the world.
  • The fourth clock

    The fourth clock

    One of the final steps in the evolution of clocks was made in in 1656, when a Dutch man named Huyhens studied Galileo Galilei’s theory, that the swing of a pendulum can be used to power a clock.
  • The fifth clock

    The fifth clock

    Although there was an attempt to modernize clock manufacture with mass production techniques and the application of duplicating tools and machinery by the British Watch Company in 1843, it was in the United States that this system took off.
  • The sixth clock

    The sixth clock

    Then in 1906 the first contained battery driven clock was invented
  • The seventh clock

    The seventh clock

    A clock that was built in 2017.