click on the picture and it will make it bigger. you still cant really read everything on this picture but its interesting i didnt really think about the clock when we started this blog but its crazy how much it has changed it started out as a stick in the ground using shadows now we have all types of crazy clocks and watches that do more then just tell the time.
Clocks have come along way from looking at the ground to tell time. It's a shame you can't read more of the picture you posted. Clocks today have so many gadgets on them. They can time the distance and amount of time it takes you to run a mile, have calendars, and tell the times in other countries. They are digital; most clocks in the home are digital. The problem with that is children do not learn how to tell time using a minute clock. Teachers have to teach them the old "fashioned" way of telling time. Thank goodness the schools still have wall clocks.
ReplyDeleteIn my first physics class we analyzed the accuracy of some of these inventions of the past. It was shocking to see how close some were to our standard at the time i took the class which was the optical atomic clock, which was accurate to the 1 second in 4.5 million years. Clocks...most definitely a scientific achievement to set the bar.
ReplyDeleteThat's really impressive. The knowledge of people in the B.C. era even is incredible. What a pain it must have been to reset those giants tabs every year in order to tell time! The fact that was actually proven in modern time as efficient is remarkable.
ReplyDeleteI have a 14 year old daughter who is very bright but she struggles to tell time in an analog clock - you know the 1 through 12 variety. I visited Stonehenge several years ago - amazing. That is one time piece, seasonal time that drove the cultural life in southern England for centuries.
ReplyDeleteClocks have really come a long way. They have so many features that many people do not know most of them. Besides time some of them have calendars, calculators, back light and so much more. Before it would only tell time. With the new clocks today children have a hard time to learn the old time they prefer the digital time. It took me a long time to teach my kids how to tell time with the regular hand clocks and watches. With the feature of the calculator it helps children with math but unfortunately they won't learn how to do the math on their own.
ReplyDeleteTime is one of the most ambiguous inventions of human kind. I have heard that animals don't even have a sense of time. yet we have let something so abstract become one of the ruling factors in our lives. It helps us make better decisions about the future & anticipate when things may occur
ReplyDeleteIt is very crazy how we have taken a stone table that required the sunlight to tell us time to these little arm watches that are battery operated. I wish there was no sense of time and we work when we felt like waking up- that would be the life!
ReplyDeleteTime interests me very much. Even the simple fact that humans have, with a great deal of precision, broken time up into something so even amazes me. Even a small miscalculation could mess our timing system up completely. Just imagine if we were off by a second a day. In ten years the day would be pushed back/forward an hour. But we have managed to break it down so perfectly that we can use our time system without having to adjust anything except adding a day to the year every 4 years.
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