Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Time Tellers

     The following are some landmarks in the history of telling the time.


1500-1300 BC


                      Sundials are used in egypt: as the earth rotates,the genomon-the upright part of the sundial-casts a shadow which moves to indicate the time.

c 400 BC


                   Water clocks are used in greece:


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