The clocks can be found almost everywhere. We realize them in train stations, in hallways, in hospitals, in halls and offices. The watches are part of our daily lives. We use them to regulate our activities in various forms, such as when riding the bus or going home from work. But, have you ever wondered how the clocks came into existence at all?
What we know today as the clocks have a long history. This time, saying the device is one of the most amazing inventions ever created by man, because over the centuries had wondered how you will know when to do what. You will appreciate this concern when we look at the clock source. The word clock comes from the Latin word Clocca a bell. A bell tells people when to stop or start doing something. It announces the time. So the clocks have been developed to regulate human activities.
We are so accustomed to modern wall clocks that we forget the first attempts of man to devise a time telling device. It is widely accepted that the first effort of man to know the time was to determine the position of the sun. He used the movement of the sun in the sky to indicate what time of day it was. So he came to terms such as the dawn, when the sun on the eastern horizon at midday, when it is overloaded and dusk, when on the western horizon, but all these denotations were not accurate. For example, if the sun is placed somewhere between noon and dusk, what time was it? These difficulties led to renewed efforts to find a more appropriate way to tell time.
The first real attempt was what we might call a watch was the sundial and was first used in 3500 BC. It was a simple piece of equipment that uses the sun’s shadow to the point mark on a disk, and thus know the time of day.
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