Humans have been measuring time in various ways. The water clocks, hourglasses, and movement of the sun have been used by people to measure time. The sundial was the first time- measuring device known to humans. Throughout our history, there were several phases of clock designs, but their origins are not clear and their original designers are lost to history.<\/p>\n
Sundials were originally created in Babylon over 6 thousand years ago and developed into a more functional state in Ancient Egypt. It became an extremely useful analog clock device that remained in continual use for many thousands of years after, even managing to survive until today.<\/p>\n
When those mechanical clocks finally provided exact measurements of time, only then did sundials became antiquated for governments and commerce industry (the mid-1800s).<\/p>\n
Historically, the first modern clock was created by German inventor Peter Heinlein, who introduced the world to Spring-driven clock around 1511. This crude device usually lost several hours over one day of work proved to be the instrumental starting point for other inventors, who quickly focused their minds on solving the problem of creating small, easy to use and precise clock.<\/p>\n
European mechanical clocks that were not powered by water appeared in the 13th and 14th centuries, however, their weight and complexness made them usable only by scientists who designed them. The final enabled analog clock came into function with Jacob Zech of Prague in 1525 where he greatly expanded with the works of Galileo Galilei and Christiaan Huygens who introduced pendulum.<\/p>\n
In 1746, Monsieur Passemont, a French clockmaker, completed a clock which was certainly the first in the world to be able to take account of a new millennium. Its dial could reveal the date of the month in any year up to 9999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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