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Recent Examples of water clock
Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks.
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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
The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
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
The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for water clock
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The alarm clock gradually increases the light in the room over the course of 30 minutes, then, once she’s largely roused, sounds a gentle alarm.Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2024
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Kay Burley is ready to turn off the 3am alarm clock.Jake Kanter, Deadline, 16 Dec. 2024
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Those in favor of seasonal time clock changes cite children walking to school in the dark with daylight saving time used in the winter.Sheldon H. Jacobson, Boston Herald, 30 Oct. 2024
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So, if grad school and work have you at capacity, don’t worry about anyone else’s time clock for love or anything else.Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2024
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Behind them was a painting that Carter had made of the same room, with its grandfather clock, rocking chairs, and roll-top desk.Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
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When the weights in a grandfather clock reach the bottom of their chains, the clock stops.Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
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At its center are atomic clocks, which measure the passage of time by tracking the quantum transitions of electrons.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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Projects have been proposed to use an orbital constellation of optical atomic clocks to support the search for dark matter and dark energy, detect low-frequency gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy and probe the fundamental limits of general relativity.Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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The forward area has an hourglass shape that provides an exceptional view for the staterooms.Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
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The oversized jacket can be cinched at the waist with the accompanying belt to create an hourglass shape at will, while a removable hood is especially well-suited for fending off wind, snow, and rain.Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 20 Dec. 2024
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The curving observation tower functions as a massive sundial and marks the changing of the seasons.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
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Particular attention in the exhibition is also given to the Umayyads’ contributions to science and technology through the display of sundials that were used in early Islamic astronomy.Chadd Scott, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Water clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/water%20clock. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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