By 1652, the pendulum clocks became the world’s most precise time measuring devices and were the most widely used across the globe. However, with the advancements in technology, more accurate clocks were invented. Although the sundial wasn’t a very accurate way of telling time, it was, nevertheless, used for almost 2,000 years. The time of the day was read through the position and length of the shadows on the markings. The sundial consisted of a vertical metal stick on a horizontal surface that was marked with morning, noon, afternoon, evening, and night. It all started with the direction of the sun using a sundial to tell the time. Marine, weather station or maritime clockĬlocks are possibly the oldest human inventions that date back as early as 1300 when the first mechanical time measuring device was invented in Europe.
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