Hackaday

Historical Hackers: Ctesibius Tells Time

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 ...
The Santa Fe New Mexican

Planned film 'Water Clock' melds history, science to portray water crisis

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. A young, Northern New Mexico farmer takes a stone bowl to two scientists and tells them this ancient relic can ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Summer is almost here, Las Vegas. It’s time to reset your water clocks

Las Vegas is advancing toward another blistering desert summer. For homeowners, that means one thing for your lawn — it’s time to reset your water clocks. In the summer from May through August, hotter ...
Hackaday

Steampunk Water Thief Clock Steals Attention, Too

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 ...
Hyperallergic

Elephant Water Clock Among 25,000 Pages of Medieval Arabic Scientific Manuscripts

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 ...
La Brújula Verde

The Time Machine of Fez: How the Ingenious Medieval Water Clock with 12 Windows and 12 Bronze Bowls Worked

Dar al-Magana or the House of Maimonides in Fez, Morocco, with the 12 windows of the clock. Credit: Yair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons In the bustling medina of Fez in Morocco, passersby who walk daily ...
Nature

Egyptian Water-Clocks

PERMIT a brief correction to the paragraph in NATURE of April 7, p. 479, on the casts presented to the Science Museum. The variable divisions of the water-clocks are not for different lengths of day, ...
Forbes

11 Pivotal Moments In The History Of Timekeeping

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 ...
IFLScience

This Incredible Islamic Fountain From The 1300s Might Have Actually Been A Clock

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...
Forbes

Anything That ‘Ticks’ Can Be A Clock

My next book, due out in late January, is called A Brief History of Timekeeping, and covers at least 5,000 years of the science and technology humans have used to track the time. When I cite that ...
Time

Science: Water Clock

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 ...