Examples of water clock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web It’s a water clock, based on a constant flow of water, but it’s a mechanical device. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022 It’s this weird hybrid between an old-school water clock and the mechanical clocks that would be developed in Europe a century or two later. — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2022 The sound of the water clock slowly filling up and then suddenly emptying brings a subtle sense of temporality that is at the same time an invitation to disconnect from time. — Felicity Carter, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021 First came the idea of a water clock, which was then developed by the Ancient Greeks and Arabs. — Kison Patel, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021 One of the most famous of his devices is an enormous water clock that featured an elephant carrying his driver and a tower filled with creatures. — National Geographic, 30 July 2020 Its short, digestible sections are instead about candy bracelets, water clocks, the birds that fly above Jerusalem’s checkpoints, the taste of Coca-Cola in prison. — Charles Finch, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2020 The need to gauge the divisions of the day and night led the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans to create sundials, water clocks and other early chronometric tools. — William J. H. Andrewes, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2012 See More

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