People are obsessed with the time and the weather. We’ve talked about the weather since we were all cave dwellers hunting with spears. But the time is a different matter. Sure, people always had the ...

Today, checking the time is almost instinctive. A glance at a phone, smartwatch or wall clock can tell us the hour, minute and even second. But for most of human history, there was no clock to consult ...

A new online portal created by the British Library and Qatar Foundation features 25,000 pages of medieval Arabic manuscripts centered on the history of science. Bink Hallum, Arabic Scientific ...

Researchers may have found the earliest example of humans tinkering with the workings of a clock to improve its timekeeping accuracy. Cartoon of the rock clock. The blue pits were likely used to tell ...

The funny thing about clocks is that the more intriguing they are to look at, the more precious time is wasted. This steampunk clepsydra is no exception. A clepsydra, or water thief clock is an ...

The first clockmaker did not have to guess what time it was. Long before gears, wheels and moving hands appeared, people had already learned to track the passage of a day by watching the Sun, Moon and ...

UNSPECIFIED - CIRCA 1900: Greek civilization - 5th century b.C. - Terracotta clepsydra, water clock, realized with a 6 litre vessel. (Photo By DEA / G. NIMATALLAH/De Agostini via Getty Images) 2) The ...

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Research Institute requires 30 gal. samples of city of Chicago water at least five yrs. and not more than 20 yrs. old. Phone Midway 3-0800, Ext. 2502, or write 5640 Ellis-av. For ...

When I first saw the Water Tower Clock by Strange Inventions, I genuinely had to watch it twice. Not because I didn’t understand it, but because I couldn’t quite believe that someone looked at a pile ...

Researchers may have found the earliest example of humans tinkering with the workings of a clock to improve its timekeeping accuracy. Cartoon of the rock clock. The blue pits were likely used to tell ...