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  2. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    Devices and methods for keeping time have gradually improved through a series of new inventions, starting with measuring time by continuous processes, such as the flow of liquid in water clocks, to mechanical clocks, and eventually repetitive, oscillatory processes, such as the swing of pendulums. Oscillating timekeepers are used in modern ...

  3. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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    In the past, a common time measuring instrument was the sundial. Today, the usual measuring instruments for time are clocks and watches. For highly accurate measurement of time an atomic clock is used. Stopwatches are also used to measure time in some sports.

  4. Timeline of time measurement inventions - Wikipedia

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    This timeline of time measurement inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions relating to timekeeping devices and their inventors, where known. Note: Dates for inventions are often controversial. Sometimes inventions are invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be ...

  5. Chronometry - Wikipedia

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    Horology is commonly used specifically with reference to the mechanical instruments created to keep time: clocks, watches, clockwork, sundials, hourglasses, clepsydras, timers, time recorders, marine chronometers, and atomic clocks are all examples of instruments used to measure time.

  6. Water clock - Wikipedia

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    The conversion device was called pangmok, and was placed above the inflow vessel that measured the time, the first device of its kind in the world. [49] Thus, the Borugak water clock is the first hydro-mechanically engineered dual-time clock in the history of horology. [50] [51]

  7. Category:Time measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Time measurement systems" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.

  8. Atomic clock - Wikipedia

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    Once the microwave radiation is adjusted to a known frequency where the maximum number of atoms switch states, the atom and thus, its associated transition frequency, can be used as a timekeeping oscillator to measure elapsed time. [39] All timekeeping devices use oscillatory phenomena to accurately measure time, whether it is the rotation of ...

  9. Clock - Wikipedia

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    An analog pendulum clock made around 18th century. A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time.The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, and the year.