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Recent Examples of water clock
Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks.
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Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
The story of precision timing begins with primitive yet ingenious methods like sundials and water clocks, markers of humanity's first steps in timekeeping.
—Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The oldest surviving water clocks were found in Egypt and Babylon, and the earliest of these date to around 1500 B.C.E.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
It’s a water clock, based on a constant flow of water, but it’s a mechanical device.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
It’s this weird hybrid between an old-school water clock and the mechanical clocks that would be developed in Europe a century or two later.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024
The story of precision timing begins with primitive yet ingenious methods like sundials and water clocks, markers of humanity's first steps in timekeeping.
—Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
The oldest surviving water clocks were found in Egypt and Babylon, and the earliest of these date to around 1500 B.C.E.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis.
—Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023
It’s a water clock, based on a constant flow of water, but it’s a mechanical device.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
It’s this weird hybrid between an old-school water clock and the mechanical clocks that would be developed in Europe a century or two later.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022
The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time.
—Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for water clock
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Then explore sleep trackers and smart alarm clocks that wake you up at the optimal point in your sleep cycle.Jodie Cook, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Those interested in, say, an alarm clock based more on mimicking natural light, or in the market for a sleep tracker that attempts to capture our various sleep stages, would need a more complex device.Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
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Besides the fact that Eldridge spent all of nine games at Double-A, there’s no reason to get a head start on his service time clock while occupying a 40-man spot that could be used to protect another prospect from the Rule 5 draft this winter.Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
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The main thing that sets this revival apart from past revivals (besides Marianne Elliott’s consummate directing), is the gender switch from Bobby, a swinging sixties bachelor, to Bobbie, a less-swinging single whose biological time clock is getting louder.Jordan Riefe, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 July 2024
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But the only way to get the grandfather clock that features the Martinsville Speedway logo with the race date is to win a NASCAR Cup Series Race, a NASCAR Xfinity Series or NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Martinsville.Bruce Martin, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
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At its center are atomic clocks, which measure the passage of time by tracking the quantum transitions of electrons.Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2024
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Projects have been proposed to use an orbital constellation of optical atomic clocks to support the search for dark matter and dark energy, detect low-frequency gravitational waves with unprecedented accuracy and probe the fundamental limits of general relativity.Paul Lipman, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
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At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
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However, spending an hourglass boosts your stamina and shortens the wait time.PCMAG, PCMAG, 1 Nov. 2024
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On October 19, Gomez hit the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures' red carpet wearing a stunning velvet navy Alaïa gown featuring an hourglass silhouette, deep scoop neckline, and black leather peek-a-boo bustier, once again bucking archaic fashion rules about the controversial color combo.Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2024
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The curving observation tower functions similarly to a massive sundial and marks the changing of the seasons.Adam Williams, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2024
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Designed like a huge sundial, the Arctic Henge casts shadows in precise locations between its arched gateways.Samuel Sanders, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 July 2024
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“Water clock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/water%20clock. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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