why do clocks turn clockwise?
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they do not turn clockwise....... clocwise is a term that was coined after the invention of a clock.......the inventor decided to make the hands move in the same direction as the sun dial of the past.....
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Some NASCAR sites claim that it is for the safety of the driver, racing that way keeps him as far away from the wall as possible.  But a lot of sites claim that car and horse racing are counter-clockwise as a protest to the British from years back...\n\n"It is felt that the American practice of racing counter-clockwise began at this track, in response to anti-British feeling at the time. The British raced in a clockwise direction."
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Usually that it's eleven minutes past eleven.\nBut some people (including myself) think that it's good luck when the clock shows straight ones, and if you make a wish it'll come true. (Like shooting stars, blowing on dandelions, blowing out candles, etc.)
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it is the icon that looks like a clock that has an green arrow pointing counter clockwise around the clock.. its beside my favorites icon in my desktop.. but most of the time it is different for every user ..
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n 1577, Jost Burgi invented the minute hand. Burgi's invention was part of a clock made for Tycho Brahe, an astronomer who needed an accurate clock for his stargazing.\n\nPendulum\nIn 1656, the pendulum was invented by Christian Huygens, making clocks more accurate.\n\nWrist Watch\nIn 1504, the first portable (but not very accurate) timepiece was invented in Nuremberg, Germany by Peter Henlein.The first reported person to actually wear a watch on the wrist was the French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). With a piece of string, he attached his pocket watch to his wrist.\n\nQuartz\nAccording to the Smithsonian "In 1927, Canadian-born Warren Marrison, a telecommunications engineer, was searching for reliable frequency standards at Bell Telephone Laboratories. Building on earlier work in piezoelectricity, he developed a very large, highly accurate clock based on the regular vibrations of a quartz crystal in an electrical circuit" - the first quartz clock.\n\nOrigins of "Clock"\nThe word 'clock' comes from the French word "cloche" meaning bell. The Latin for bell is glocio, the Saxon is clugga and the German is glocke.\n\nStandard Time\nSir Sanford Fleming invented standard time in 1878.\nAlarm Clocks\nAn early prototype of the alarm clock was invented by the Greeks around 250 BC. The Greeks built a water clock where the raising waters would both keep time and eventually hit a mechanical bird that triggered an alarming whistle.\n\nThe first mechanical alarm clock was invented by Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. However, the ringing bell alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. On October 24, 1876 a mechanical wind-up alarm clock that could be set for any time was patented (#183,725) by Seth E Thomas.\n\nSelf-winding Watch\nSwiss John Harwood invented the self-winding watch in 1923.\n\nClock Companies\nIn 1908, the Westclox Clock Company is issued a patent for the Big Ben alarm clock. The outstanding feature on this clock is the bell-back, which completely envelops the inner case back and is an integral part of the case. The bell-back provides a loud alarm.\n\nThe Warren Clock Company was formed in 1912 by Mr. Henry Warren as President. The company started by producing a new type of clock run by batteries, prior to that, clocks were either wound or run by weights.
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cause clocks are stupid and they dont know how to count
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
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It stems from our anti-British values back in the days of the revolution.  It is the same reason why our horse races, and car races are ran counter clockwise on the track.  The British ran their horse races clockwise and we were so anti-British back in the day that we did it the opposite.  It snowballed from there.......
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We put the clocks forward by 1hr on Sunday 26th March 2006 and then put them back by an hour on the 29th October. It is basically to get more hours of daylight at decent times of the day!\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
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It depends on what watch, but some watches the little thing you pull out to set them can pull out half way and all the way, the half way will let you set the date and the all the way will let you set the time. I hope that helps :)
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Because if it went counterclockwise time would be going in reverse? :)
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Maybe.\n\nIf the motor could turn both ways then simply reversing the polarity of the current flowing into it should do the job.  I suspect the motor could turn both ways just fine, whether the clock would be designed to prevent it from doing so is another matter.
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they understand the concept of time the same way we do, they just have diffrent time zones so they have their times diffrent then us. What i mean by that is that while its 9 here it might be 4 there (not sure if thats the exact diffrence) because of the way the earth revolves around the sun.
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Gravity.  Clocks run slower in a gravitational field. Plus whatever velocity difference there might be.
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Contrary to legend, it depends on the sink - not the hemisphere. The Coriolis force (which makes large scale currents and weather patterns turn clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern hemisphere) is really too small to matter in a sink/toilet. The geometry of the sink and the motion of the water before you pull the plug plays a much larger role.
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go to http://www.howstuffworks.com/clock.htm and it will tell you everything you need to know.
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Time to look at a clock