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  2. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [8]

  3. Chinese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    On 16 February 1929, the Nationalist government adopted and promulgated The Weights and Measures Act [2] to adopt the metric system as the official standard and to limit the newer Chinese units of measurement (Chinese: 市用制; pinyin: shìyòngzhì; lit. 'market-use system') to private sales and trade in Article 11, effective on 1 January ...

  4. Incense clock - Wikipedia

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    The incense clock (simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping device that originated from China during the Song dynasty (960–1279) and spread to neighboring East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.

  5. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The idea of using atomic transitions to measure time was first suggested by the British scientist Lord Kelvin in 1879, [204] although it was only in the 1930s with the development of magnetic resonance that there was a practical method for measuring time in this way. [205] A prototype ammonia maser device was built in 1948 at NIST. Although ...

  6. Water clock - Wikipedia

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    In 718, Unified Silla established the system of clepsydra for the first time in Korean history, imitating the Tang Dynasty. [46] In 1434, during Joseon rule, Jang Yeong-sil ( Korean : 장영실 ; Hanja : 蔣英實 ), a palace guard and later chief court engineer, constructed the Borugak Jagyeongnu or self-striking water clock of Borugak ...

  7. Timeline of time measurement inventions - Wikipedia

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    Time's Pendulum: From Sundials to Atomic Clocks, the Fascinating History of Timekeeping and How Our Discoveries Changed the World (1st ed.). San Diego: Harcourt Trade Publishers. ISBN 978-01560-0-649-1. Bergreen, Laurence (2003). Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. New York: Morrow.

  8. Hour - Wikipedia

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    The metric system bases its measurements of time upon the second, ... Ancient China divided its day into 100 "marks" [45] [46] (Chinese: ...

  9. Candle clock - Wikipedia

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    Similar methods of measuring time were used in medieval churches. [ citation needed ] The invention of the candle clock was attributed by the Anglo-Saxons to Alfred the Great , king of Wessex . The story of how the clock was created was narrated by Asser , who lived at Alfred's court and became his close associate. [ 2 ]