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  2. Hourglass - Wikipedia

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    An hourglass (or sandglass, sand timer, or sand clock) is a device used to measure the passage of time. It comprises two glass bulbs connected vertically by a narrow neck that allows a regulated flow of a substance (historically sand) from the upper bulb to the lower one due to gravity. Typically, the upper and lower bulbs are symmetric as they ...

  3. Marine sandglass - Wikipedia

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    The most interesting thing about the second reference, the one from King Charles, is that a common sand-glass is defined as "ung grant orloge de mer" or "a large sea clock", this together with the fact that the first explanation of its use at sea (found by M.Llauradó) appears in the Francesc Eiximenis work "lo dotzé del crestià" and that was ...

  4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The first clock known to strike regularly on the hour, a clock with a verge and foliot mechanism, is recorded in Milan in 1336. [96] By 1341, clocks driven by weights were familiar enough to be able to be adapted for grain mills, [97] and by 1344 the clock in London's Old St Paul's Cathedral had been replaced by one with an escapement. [98]

  5. List of largest hourglasses - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1991 [6] and located in the Nima Sand Museum, this hourglass is 5.2 metres high and contains around one ton of sand. [7] 1 year [8] Built in 1999 and located on Jeongdongjin Beach it takes one year for the sand to fall to the bottom. [9] 1 year

  6. Clock - Wikipedia

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    A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. ... fine sand pouring through a tiny hole at a constant rate indicates an arbitrary, predetermined ...

  7. The Grand Tour: Sand Job review – Blokey pantomime clocks in ...

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    3/5 Clarkson and co are back, for their penultimate adventure, with a trip from Choum in Mauritania to the beaches of Dakar in Senegal

  8. Why your phone doesn’t make for the best alarm clock - AOL

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    But dedicated alarm clocks have many ways to get you up and out of bed. “Alarms come with a variety of features such as vibration, lights, noises, puzzles,” Paruthi said. Your phone disrupts ...

  9. Water clock - Wikipedia

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    A water clock, or clepsydra (from Ancient Greek κλεψύδρα (klepsúdra) 'pipette, water clock'; from κλέπτω (kléptō) 'to steal' and ὕδωρ (hydor) 'water'; lit. ' water thief ' ), is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount ...

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