Candles as Clocks
Telling the Time Through the Ages.
r PIIE first tinie-recorder was the sunJ dial. The Chaldean? and Egyptians had a water clock called a cleprvdra. A stream of water dripped into a iar and on reaching a certain level moved what to-day would be called a V ill-coi : This worked -j rod along. Plato introduced the clepsydra, or v ater clock, into Greece (says a writer m the Horologioal Journal c and it l- supposed that this method of time nen 1 vm aj used in East even before that time (400-500 8.C.). A specimen of the clepsydra can be seen at the British. Museum, Sand-glasses, known to the present generation as eggdioiler?, were invented about A.D. 330 by a monk of Chartres named Luitprand, and according t > a French prescription the sand used v.. black marble dust, ground fine and bailed in wine, the process.- • of g repeated
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)
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152Candles as Clocks Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)
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