where the first clock was ever made?
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Made in China:\nClocks - The first clock that they devised was for astronomical uses. In the first clock ever, there was a puppet that would hold up a plaque that would tell the time. They also invented giant water clocks, which rang every fifteen minutes.
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http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=91
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Water Clocks\nClepsydra\nWater clocks, along with sand clocks, were one of the earliest forms of clock that didn't rely on the sun or other astronomical phenomena. As such they could be used at night and/or indoors. The Greeks called them "clepsydra", a name which means "water thief". It's thought that the actual use of these clocks was not normally to track "time of day" but to measure duration.\nThe earliest water clocks - which date back to at least 1500 BC - were very simple and basically consisted of a bowl with a hole! There were three main ways of using this to tell time: \nA bowl with a small hole in the base would be filled with water. As the water dripped out, the level would fall and the elapsed time could be read off according to markings on the bowl. \nOne water container would drip into a marked bowl which could be read accordingly. \nA bowl with a hole was placed in a water container and as it gradually sank it would fill and the elapsed time could be read according to the usual markings. \n\nMechanical Water Clocks\nAs technology advanced, water clocks became more elaborate. The principle remained the same - something emptying, something filling, or something sinking. However a variety of ingenious mechanical mechanisms were created for taking this motive force and making use of it. Other innovations included more sophisticated control of water flow than a drip.\nThese mechanical water clocks would display the time in a way closer to the form we know today, often by means of dials or pointers. Some of them also generated motion in the form of moving figures and ringing bells.\n\n\nTowers\nMechanical water mechanisms were used as the basis of some public clocks. One of the most famous was the Horologion of Andronikos of Kyrrhos, also known as the Tower of the Winds. The Tower of the Winds was built in the Athens marketplace, probably in the 1st century BC. It is an octagonal structure with the faces illustrating the winds along with sundials, mechanical time indicators and assorted astrological data.\nAnother famous water driven clock tower was Su Sung's Tower, also known as the "Cosmic Engine". The Chinese emperor employed Su Sung to build this famous astronomical clock tower. This was completed in 1094 AD and was a 30ft high tower with a 10ft high observation platform atop. The water powered mechanism showed the time, controlled mannequins ringing bells and kept the observational equipment correctly aligned with the heavens.
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The direction that a clock goes is entirely dependent on how it is made.  You can easily put the numbers in the opposite direction above the equator and have it work, so which side of the equator it's made on doesn't really matter.
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Blank Pictures of alarm clocks.\n\nhttp://www.blackdog.net/games/clock/worksheets/fourclocks.gif
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here's a site since i don't fully understand the question: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_pennellhistoryofrome.htm#preface\nhope the answer is there :)
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Your clocks jumped *automatically*???  DANG!!!  I spend an hour twice a year resetting all of mine!  It takes me so long because I can never remember how to do the ones on the stove, the microwave, and in my car, so I have to RTFM's (that's "read the {bleeping} manuals") every single time!  I'm green with envy.  Where do you buy your clocks???
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The Cuckoo Clock originates from the Black Forest in Germany, the reason for choosing the Cuckoo is simple, his call was more suited for a clock, then chirping that can be hardly heard.
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Hmmm.. People have been measuring time since antiquity. At first they used the position of the sun in the sky (or the stars at night) and the variations due to the seasons. Water clocks were often used in antiquity also, but they were not very accurate.\n\nMechanical clocks of reasonable accuracy became possible after 1200 with the invention of what is called the 'escapement mechanism', but at that time an accuracy of within an hour over a month was good.\n\nGalileo used a pendulum to control the accuracy of clocks about 1600 and this, with the escapement mechanism lead to a greatly improved accuracy then. Several modifications were made for the next century or so and by the middle 1700s the accuracy was within one second over a few months. This lead to the solution of the 'longitude problem'.
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A device that was named the "Antikythera mechanism" bc discovered in 1900 in a sunken ship just off the coast of Antikythera, an island between Crete and the Greek mainland. It was dated to approximately 80 BC.\nGiven the age there is reason to believe that archimedes or his disciples might have been involved with developement of this device. But, at a minimum, the answer is the ancient greeks. It is as sophisticated as the babbage computer and was used to predict the positions of the sun moon and palnets on any date.
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The hands at the 10:10 or 1:50 position, lead the eye to the makers logo, usually found just above center.\nAlso some interesting info here.\nhttp://www.ubr.com/clocks/faq/1010.html
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My Grandfather's Clock is a song written in 1876 by Henry Clay Work, the author of Marching Through Georgia. It is a standard of British brass bands and colliery bands, and is also popular in bluegrass music.\n\nThere are two competing theories as to the origin of the song. The most common relates to a wayfarers' inn in Piercebridge on the border of Yorkshire and County Durham called the George Hotel. The hotel was owned and operated by two brothers called Jenkins, and in the lobby was an upright longcase clock. The clock kept perfect time until one of the brothers died, after which it lost time at an increasing rate, despite the best efforts of the hotel staff and local clockmakers to repair it. When the other brother died, the clock stopped, never to go again. It is said that in 1875 Henry Clay Work visited the hotel and based My Grandfather's Clock on the stories he heard there. It is said that the song is responsible for the common name "grandfather clock" for what are properly called "longcase clocks"\n\nA form of the "Grandfather's Clock' song is known to anyone who grew up in the 60's and 70's. A popular clock toy, marketed by Fisher-Price, had a dial on it that, when turned, caused the toy to play the song along with clock-like ticking.\n\nThe song is also well known in Japan and to multiple generations. In 2002 a Ken Hirai recording of this song rose quite high in the popularity charts.\n\nA competing theory holds that the lyrics were written not by Work but instead by C. Russel Christian, who wrote the poem about his grandfather, James P. Christian.\n\nThe song was recorded by Boyz II Men in 2004.\n\nThis song was the inspiration for The Twilight Zone episode Ninety Years Without Slumbering.\n\nHouse Hash Harriers and rugby fans occasionally sing an obscene version of the song: My Grandfather's Cock\n\n\n\nhttp://cgi.ebay.com/CHILDRENs-FAVOURITES-LP-Jon-Pertwee-Jessie-Matthews_W0QQitemZ200044384027QQihZ010QQcategoryZ1072QQcmdZViewItem\n\n\nhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Original-Kids-Album-Unforgettable-Children/dp/B000FDJ2RY\n\nhttp://www.last.fm/music/Jon+Pertwee
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mankind didn't "invent" the system of time, but just rather makes use of it. time is something that we "notice" as the laws of thermodynamics occur in the universe. everything is cooling down and so time progresses... sort of. thats another subject (time doesnt really exist)...\n"standard time" on the other hand is something that we began to use to - believe it or not - to keep up with train schedules. it is merely standardized for many regions to use and not confuse anyone. first thought of by Dr. William Wollaston (1766-1828) is was adopted by the The Great Western Railway in November 1840 - GMT London time was born! standard time was instituted in the US by the railroads on Nov. 18, 1883 (about the same time as the electric safety elevator)\nthe idea of daylight savings time - used to make better use of the daylight - was conceived by Benjamin Franklin while he was in Paris in 1784. \nUTC is Coordinated Universal Time and helps keep everyone on schedule.\nas for waaaaay back in history, we just kept noticing people getting older and dying and stories getting handed down the line. many different calendars were made by the watching stars farther back than most "written" records go, but the modern calendar is gregorian and centers around the birth of Christ - but is about 4 to 6 years off (on the late end).
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_clock
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The first book that could be called an atlas was constructed from the calculations of Claudius Ptolemy, a geographer working in Alexandria circa A.D. 150. The first edition was published in Bologna in 1477\n\nThe first globe actually NOTED in history was the 1492 world globe made by the German map-maker Martin Behaim .\n\nNicholas Copernicus  may have made the first globe, however there is no date given for any Copernicus made globe (he made many)
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The first recorded thermometer was produced by the Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) who was one of a group of Venetian scientists working at the end of the Sixteenth Century. As with many inventions the thermometer came about through the work of many scientists and was improved upon by many others.\n \n1596 \n Galileo Galilei and the first thermoscope\nGalileo Galilei is often claimed to be the inventor of the thermometer. However the instrument he invented could not strictly be called a thermometer: to be a thermometer an instrument must measure temperature differences; Galileo's instrument did not do this, but merely indicated temperature differences. His instrument should rightly be called a thermoscope.\n\nThe Thermoscope\nThe predecessor to the thermometer, the thermoscope is a thermometer without a scale; it indicates differences in temperature only ie it can show if the temperature is higher, lower or the same, but unlike a thermometer it cannot measure the difference nor can the result be recorded for future reference. The thermoscope was widely used by a group of scientists in Venice that included Galileo. It was only a small step from the thermoscope to the thermometer. \n\n1612 \n Santorio Santorio - the first thermometer\nThe Italian, Santorio Santorio (1561-1636) is generally credited with having applied a scale to an air thermoscope at least as early as 1612 and thus is thought to be the inventor of the thermometer as a temperature measuring device. Santorio's instrument was an air thermometer. Its accuracy was poor as the effects of varying air pressure on the thermometer were not understood at that time. \n\n1654 \n The first sealed liquid-in-glass thermometer\nThe sealed liquid-in-glass thermometer, more familiar to us today, was first produced in 1654 by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II (1610-1670). His thermometer had an alcohol filling. Although this was a significant development his thermometer was inaccurate and there was no standardised scale in use. \n\n1714 \n The first mercury thermometer\nGabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) was the first person to make a thermometer using mercury. The more predictable expansion of mercury combined with improved glassworking techniques led to a much more accurate thermometer. \nFahrenheit - the first Standard Thermometer Scale\nFahrenheit used the newly discovered fixed points to devise the first standard temperature scale for his thermometer. Fahrenheit divided the freezing and boiling points of water into 180 degrees. 32 was chosen as the the figure for the lower fixed point as this produced a scale that would not fall below zero even when measuring the lowest possible temperatures that he could produce in his laboratory - a mixture of ice, salt and water. It is sometimes suggested that Fahrenheit divided his scale into 100 degrees using blood temperature (incorrectly measured) and the freezing point of water as fixed points - this is not true. The Fahrenheit scale is still in use today. \n\n\n\n1731 \n The Réamur Scale\nIn 1731 the Frenchman, René Antoine Ferchauld de Réamur (1683-1757) proposed a thermometer scale on which the freezing point of water was 0° and the boiling point was 80°. The Réamur scale is not in use today. \n\n1742 \n The Celsius Scale\nIn 1742 a Swedish scientist named Anders Celsius (1701-1744) devised a thermometer scale dividing the freezing and boiling points of water into 100 degrees. Celsius chose 0 degrees for the boiling point of water, and 100 degrees for the freezing point. A year later, the Frenchman Jean Pierre Cristin (1683-1755) inverted the Celsius scale to produce the Centigrade scale used today (freezing point 0°, boiling point 100°). By international agreement in 1948 Cristin's adapted scale became known as Celsius and is still in use today. \n\n1848 \n The Absolute Temperature Scale or Kelvin Scale\nIn 1848 Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Lord Kelvin of Scotland (1824 - 1907) proposed t
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The first electronic calculation device using binary logic was built by Konrad Zuse in 1938. Check out the first link below.\n\nCharles Babbage built or at least conceived the first mechanical difference engines that could sort punch cards and even be programmed by punchcards.