Show odd timepieces Tune pieces used by ancients egyptians had water clock and greeks used sundial washing washington tona A 24 hour bour day begin beci nine ming at midnight is so universally accepted by landsmen that the recent announcement that the system would be extended to ships which now begin their day at noon was surprising Illo however wever land time and ship time are only two of 0 a number of way ways which men have marked the fleeting ik eting moments and various other ways survive even now says a bulletin from the washington D C Q beao headquarters quarters of the national geographic society alfred the great had wax candles 12 inches ions long marked in notches to tell off the four hours they burned later covered them with thin white born horn lantern fashion to protect them from drafts but he was far behind bis his times in comparison with other portions of the world and his timepiece was wail crude in the extreme compared with other invention inventions before DOO A D ancient sundials primitive peoples before the dawn of history fixed a pole or stick in the amun ground d and drew a line about it rep resenting the course ef of the a shadow hadow it cast from sunrise to gunset we may suppose that when hen mr caveman started out in the morning on a foraging expedition he led mrs caveman out and notched the shadow line to show her when she could expect him home some of ot his fellow mortals la in other parts pads of the world in the same stage of development made a kind of hemp or grass trams rope which they dampened and knotted la in regular spaces when this was lighted the slowly and regularly barly creeping spark told off the flight of time it Is to said that these primitive time markers are tire used in ports parts of chosen korea though some students believe that the early japanese had DO no method of reckoning time others claim that primitive japanese and chinese almost the same thing as the rope rom though their device more nearly resembled a wick which had been so be treated that it moldered smoldered out the hours boum one of these ancient wick wicks li Is cow now in a museum la in barll even before B Q the spar kling tan stars over eastel desert deserts baj had made astronomers of meo men who had bad be gun to reckon time by the cycle cycles of the planets no one know knows when they first divided the time from sun to sun lun into 24 parti parts nor when tb the hours were first divided into minutes but ptolemy adopted the method in the tb second cen fury and gave it to his world A time sinker some of the If malay alays even today use a crude apparatus for measuring timo time which has probably been la in vogue in the far east for almost years it is I 1 called the water clock and Is simply a email small dish or round bowl with a small bole hole la in the bottom when this li Is placed in a tub of water it ua gradually dually becomes full and sinks which always happens in the same period of time oth on the malay junks it ts is the customary thing to see we a coconut shell floating in a bowl of water to tell off the time away from the borne home port the ancient egyptian lant knew the th water ate clock too and the british museum possesses oae one inscribed with the name of alexander alexa er the greal the greeks claimed that the sundial on was invented by a PUPIL of thales of Mlle tn but the great sundial of ahaz abaz was mentioned in the bible when god clod promised the eick sick hezekiah Bezek Heze klah tah to deliver his city out of at the hand hands of the king of Wat have fixed thia this date as belag bew about abold D 0 from greece the made iti its way to rome the first one bring being et set op up in the temple of rinus itoman citizens evidently til dently tottered suffered iron treat that uni universal versa falling of ora tora for in 61 B a bompey the great bet set op up in the forum a valuable rater water clock which he lie publicly announced was we to limit the lone long windedness of speakers pe aken sandglass sand glass still U faed no one kno know I 1 how old the land class glass 1 Is it may bave been suggested by the water clock and probably originated in one of the desert countries count rlee egypt or babylonian babylonia Baby lonia where water wa was at a premium we cannot tell ex exactly a CUT ot of what substances they were made but they were hown shown on greek ture before the christian era em the sand glass or water clau class has two uses all if its own at the present for boiling eggs and in the english bouse house of common commo nii to time the belli bells that ring to notify members that a division la Is at it hand water docks and sundials reached high perfection and elaborateness elaborate during the ninth century the masterpieces exchanged by haroun al ras I 1 hid and charlemagne being two of the most famous of history hit tory the first portable astrolabe arrived from arabia about A D and from that time clocks of various kinds and classes made their appearance appear atice until peter lightfoot in 1 1335 made the earliest carl leet ml real clock worthy of our modern modem definition this old handmaiden handmaid hand maid maiden on of father time still ie to goings in the tho science macum museum at south kensington the me wrist watch Is usually consid cred ered fa Is modem watch and clock industry but queen elizabeth w wore ore the tint first one about the aade am tinie time ebe the introduced bilk tock stock inge ins |