Show Clock Cock Clocks Clods as ns we wc know them ar art are no not much more than eight hun hundred rc years old but the thc hour-glass hour time meuS' meuS tired by the slow and regular rC passage e of fine sand from one bulb to another Is much older and nd there Is a R clock modeled upon one used h by the at nt least a thousand years ears B B. C. C This ancient timepiece was an nn earthenware earthenware earthen earthen- ware Jar covered cred with hieroglyphics l and filled with water venter A very tery small hole holc In the bottom of the thc vessel allowed allowed al al- lowed the water to escape drop by drop On the outside of the Jar were notches marking the hours and time was measured b by the level lerel of the thea wa wa- water water atel ter tel In relation to these notches Another Another An An- other device dc which belongs s to much the same period was the shadow shallow clock clod It consisted of two upright I wooden pegs In a n board and time was reckoned by the length lenth of or the shadows the they cast Tit Tit Bits Bits Magazine |