water clock

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Recent Examples of water clock For example, Timothée could — nay, should: ➽ Get a pork tenderloin sandwich the size of your head ➽ Visit the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library ➽ Peep the big water clock at the Children’s Museum ➽ Drive all the way down to Bloomington, IN and check out Tibetan Cultural Center. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 May 2025 His intricate water clocks and automata were not only practical but also visually appealing. Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 Before time zones, people used other methods of telling time like sun dials and water clocks. Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Mar. 2024 The story of precision timing begins with primitive yet ingenious methods like sundials and water clocks, markers of humanity's first steps in timekeeping. Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024 The oldest surviving water clocks were found in Egypt and Babylon, and the earliest of these date to around 1500 B.C.E. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023 The earliest Chinese water clocks were probably outflow devices and were known as louke. Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023 Odell’s ideas gallop between twentieth-century time studies and ancient Chinese water clocks, Amazonian factory floors and Zoom rooms set adrift, mastery journals, Mojave poetry, second shifts, segregated leisure, Ice Age sea floors and present-day climate crisis. Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2023 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
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Noun
  • Other windows incorporated costume accessories with alarm clocks, red lobsters and other favorite motifs of the surrealists.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
  • Images show X-rays of common everyday items like toys, a coffee maker, alarm clocks and more.
    Cam'ron Hardy, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • The processing plant was modeled on Henry Ford’s Highland Park automobile factory, which opened in 1910; Seabrook management even installed a time clock out in the fields, where farm hands punched in and out of work.
    John Seabrook June 11, Literary Hub, 11 June 2025
  • But the truly savvy teens aren't punching time clocks.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The towering grandfather clock in the foyer of Paul and Susan Monreal’s soon-to-be former home is far more than a conversation piece.
    William Lee, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • The ticking of a grandfather clock in the White House's Map Room, where the interview took place, is audible throughout due to the pauses and silence that hangs in the room as the former president tries to remember dates and events.
    Peter Aitken Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
Noun
  • From when records began (with the invention of the atomic clock) in 1973 until 2020, the shortest day ever recorded was 1.05 milliseconds less than 24 hours, according to Timeanddate.com.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 21 July 2025
  • Last year, on July 5, 2024, Earth experienced the shortest day ever recorded since the advent of the atomic clock 65 years ago, at 1.66 milliseconds less than 24 hours.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 21 July 2025
Noun
  • An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • The cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance attracted curious looks and made for plenty of social media moments.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The waist is gently ruched to create an hourglass silhouette, and the cutout back dips just low enough for a little extra poolside pizazz.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 14 July 2025
  • The Princess of Wales was pretty in pink in a Dior 30 Montaigne Rose Des Vents Bar Jacket from the 2024 collection, featuring an hourglass silhouette.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • If sundials revolutionized time measurement in the 1400s BC, quartz brought timekeeping into the 20th century and silicon brought it into the 21st century.
    Markus Lutz, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • The large structure, characterized by a rotating floor and illuminated surfaces, will be positioned in a layout similar to that of a sundial.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 26 Mar. 2025

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