Show odd timepieces Time pieces used by ancients egyptians had water clock an and d greek used sundial washington A 24 hour day begin one at midnight 1 la so universally accepted by landsmen landsman lands men that the recent announcement that the system would be e extended t ended to ships which now DOW begin their day at won noon was surprising however land time and ship time are only to two of a number bar ot of ways ays which men a h have S ve marked aked the fleeting moments and various at other her ways bur ur vive even now as a bulletin 1 le t 1 I 1 f from m m 0 tu the washington 1 D C headquarters e a d q U a ft e of the national hat fonal geographic society alfred the great had bad wax candles 12 inches long lone marked in notches to tell off the tour fear hours they burned he later inter covered them with mith thin white horn hem lantern fashion to protect them irmin from drafts draft but I 1 he was far behind bis big times in comparison oath w ith other portions of the world and his bia timepiece U aas as crude in the lie extreme compared with other I inventions Indent emila ions before NO A 1 D are ancient t sundials sundial Prim primitive ithe peoples people before the dawn of history fixed apat a pole or sull stick I 1 in the ground and ad drew draw a line beat about it to rep P to resenting the course comme of the shadow it from c cast at from sunrise to sunset re n e may B suppose OPP as that when ilion mr 8 started out ut 1 in the of morning a in on a dorng ine ng expedition he led mr mrs cave m man n out and notched I 1 the he ob shadow d I tine to her when she jhc co could id ex pact id him home before some borne of h his Is fellow mortals in ID ther parts of the world 1 in the same age of development made ad a kird bird ot of hemp or gross grass rope pe which ablee they dampened and ad knotted 1 in regular spaces M when hen this waa that light ed ad this the and regularly regil irly arly I creeping park told off the fillat of time it 1 IE said aid that these them DO primitive malve time markers me are used 1 in parts paris of ch chosen set korea though mine students student believe eliat 1 the lie early japanese had bad no meth method or of we reckoning I 1 there others dalia th that I 1 I 1 e D no primitive p cm and ad Clil nese used almost I 1 at the same thing thine as the rope though 1191 their that device me more nearly early re a 0 wick ilk I 1 which had hem been so BO treated t that hat it smoldered out the he hours one of these them unbent wilk wicks 1 is now in a mome museum 1 in PM paris even E a before b ear 3 B 0 ta the a spar liang fare over eastern desur deserts had bad made astronomers of men wit who had bad be gun to reckon time by the be cycles of the planets no one knows when they first divided the tIm time efrom from an bun to sun son into 24 parts paris nor when the hours boom were first divided into minutes but ptolemy adopted the method in the scene cz cen tury fury and gave it to hla his world itsjo A ahn time sinker so some a of the malays balays eveni even today ue I 1 a crude appt apparatus for far a time which has P probably ably been 1 ID vogue in the nr far east far or almost 5 years it Is called the water clock and Is aim P ply I 1 Y a small d dish h or round bowl with a 1 am small 11 hole in the bottom when this Is placed in a tub of water it gradually becomes full fall and stake sinks which DID aiwas happens happen to in the same sam period of time on the malay junka JUDAS it Is the customary thing to in we bee a coconut shell floating in a bobi of wn in ter to tell ml off the time away from the ah home port the ancient clear egyptians knew th atit nater ft ater clock too ran and the british mu poss Bessea imse one due inscribed with the name a of 1 alexander the great the gr greeks k claimed the the on vaa di dial I 1 was invented by a pupil band p d of at th chals of but the a great grant of abut I 1 wae mentioned in the bible when god proaD promised hild the sick lia liah to I 1 deliver his city out of the bonds ot of the king of historians have fixed this data a as being about B 0 fr prom G greece r em t the MIDI bade ad 1 its way to R borne the first tome ne being set up 1 an fn the trie temple of imis itoman IZ lithia citizens a mi evidently dently only buffered it rom that universal tailing failing of ato a orators to tor in 61 B G pompey the great s et up in he th the forum a valuable war water elfelt which he publicly announced S waa to limit the of st sand band glass agta still used no an one knows know how bow old the mud band glass Is IB I 1 it naf ma have been suggested mul estres aeh bv the it and probably ne mated led in 0 one of the desert co countries or where water was premium at a premium we cannot tell exactly or of what ahat substances they were made but they were shaan on in greek t before the christian ith era the send sand glass or water glass gifts has two III a uses all if it its own at t the present if time ag for boiling 11 mg eggs and in the english house of commons to time the belle that ring to notify members thatis that a dl vision I 1 in at hand water at clocks clock and ad sundials sundial reached high perfection and elaborateness cas dur due mg ing the hanth century the mater oil alecea Is exchanged charged by be if goroun II al its kas old and chat Charlema Kne being two of the most famous of if history the first p portable rable astr astrolabe dabe arched from ara A his bia about A D rod and fr from that time clocks of 1 various art kinds kind and ad e casse ac made ad their p until peter pete I 1 lightfoot Ight foot to in I 1 1335 made the earliest real cloth clock worthy of our or mod ad ern am definition this thin old hand bond of kalhor he time still la is going in the science museum at south h kensington egington the wrist watch 1 Is usually conald old cred modern ad development of th natch andis and clork clock industry but queen ellenbeth elisabeth wore am the f drat ono on about abe b same time 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