A Clock is an instrument for measuring time. It displays the time in hours, minutes and often seconds during a 12 or 24 hour period. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units: the day, the lunar month, and the year.
Chinese engineers later invented clocks Incorporating mercury-powered escapement mechanisms in the 1oth century, followed by Arabic engineers inventing water clocks driven by gears and weights in the 11th century.
The pendulum clock was invented in 1956 by Dutch scientist and inventor christiaan Huygens, and patened the following year. Huygens contracted the constructions of his clock designs to clockmaker salomon coster, who actually built the clock.
The electric clock was patented in 1840. The development of electronics in the 20th century led to clocks with no clockparts at all.
- The most accurate clock ever built is the "strontium clock". Which is accurate within a second over 15 billion years.
- "Artist Siren Elise Wilhelson" designed a clock that knits a scarf every year, interesting right!
- In 2008, a second was added to every atomic clock on earth simultaneously. This was to synchronize the atomic clock's time with the earth's rotation. More interestingly, we did not turn the clocks by a second by turning them off for one. But rather, the earth adjusted itself as the rotational speed of earth slows down by two milliseconds everyday. What causes this you ask? well, magnetic storms, solarwinds, resistance from its own surface.
- How about a christmas gift for the man who has everything. A complete clock with exotic music, flashing lights and a girl spinning on a pole. The perfect item to get you up in the morning if that's your thing.
- Surprisingly, clockwise and counterclockwise weren't called by these names in the start. Clockwise and counterclockwise were originally sunrise and widdershins before clocks were common
- A massive clock is being constructed in the mountain of east texas which is a hundred feet tall. It is a designed to withstand the test of time and expected to tick uninterrupted for over 10,000 years.
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