water clock

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Recent Examples of water clock His intricate water clocks and automata were not only practical but also visually appealing. Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks. Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024 The story of precision timing begins with primitive yet ingenious methods like sundials and water clocks, markers of humanity's first steps in timekeeping. Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 The oldest surviving water clocks were found in Egypt and Babylon, and the earliest of these date to around 1500 B.C.E. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023 The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023 Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis. Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023 It’s a water clock, based on a constant flow of water, but it’s a mechanical device. Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022 It’s this weird hybrid between an old-school water clock and the mechanical clocks that would be developed in Europe a century or two later. Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for water clock
Noun
  • Hatch Restore 2 Part sunrise alarm clock, part sleep coach, the Hatch Restore 2 helps users wind down with calming routines and wake up gradually using personalised light and sound.
    Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025
  • But even a less-intense option for morning light, like a sunrise alarm clock, may be a sleep-regulating addition when getting some real sun isn’t possible.
    Erica Sloan, SELF, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • There’s the meetings there, there’s the time clocks.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The total roasting time clocks in around 30 minutes, start to finish.
    Jessica Saari Christensen, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Charlotte native has already conquered the paperclip twice at the Cup level, taking home those iconic grandfather clocks in 2022 and 2024.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The grandfather clocks continue to be made and are sought after items from vintage collectors and interior designers.
    Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • However, compared to a quantum clock, atomic clocks are as accurate as a one-dollar antique pocket watch that's been whacked several times with a coal hammer.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 Jan. 2025
  • At their core, atomic clocks and nuclear clocks work using the same principle.
    Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 11 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Located just south of the landmark American Brewery (the structure that looks like some fantasist vastly enlarged a cuckoo clock) this grouping of public utility structures fell on excruciatingly hard times.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Condit screamed to her mother to call 911 and hurried to collect a few belongings: documents, pillows, a cuckoo clock.
    Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • There are special hyacinth vases with many shaped like an hourglass where bulbs are placed on top and water at the bottom.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2025
  • With a slight flare at the knee that expands towards the ankle, these Hollister jeans create a flattering hourglass shape.
    Jené Luciani Sena, Fox News, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The large structure, characterized by a rotating floor and illuminated surfaces, will be positioned in a layout similar to that of a sundial.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Throughout his career, Nye has made several contributions to science and space, including helping to design the sundials for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, which launched two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, to explore the surface of Mars between 2004 and 2019.
    Samantha Mathewson, Space.com, 8 Jan. 2025

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