Building a

Water Clock
SUBMITTED BY:
CEEJAY ALFONSO JOHN PAUL LUGAS
CARMELENE JOY LUPOS JELINA PAZ
JOHN CARLO TIRATIRA JJENNIEMEN SOPRANES
JANAMINE FELICIANO RISTIAN RINCE MALONES
• What are the parts of a water clock?
- An oscillator [the pendulum], a frequency divider, a minute counter [the
minute discs], and an hour counter [the hour balls]. Water from a pump in
the basement, just below the clock, is pumped through a pipe running up
the middle of the clock into a reservoir at the top. The water then drips
down onto a scoop at the top which is connected to the green, swinging
pendulum. The pendulum causes the scoop to dump the water into a
series of siphons. The siphons fill and empty into the minutes' globes. A
siphon is a tube in an inverted "U" shape which causes the solution to
flow up, without pumps, powered by the fall of the liquid as it flows down
the tube under the pull of gravity.
• What advantage does it have
over other devices such as
sundials?
- It could be used at night as well as in
daylight.
• What is it designed to do?
- A water clock uses a flow of water to measure time. There are two
types clocks the inflow and outflow.
 In an outflow water clock, a container is filled with water and the water
is drained slowly and evenly out of the container. This container has
markings to show the passage of time. As the water leaves the
container, an observer can see where is level with the lines and tell
how much time has pass
 An inflow water clock works basically in the same way, except instead
flowing out of the container, the same after is filling up the marked
container. As the container fills, the observer can see where the water
meets the lines and tell how much time has passed.
• What is the largest problem
associated with water clocks?
- The rate of flow of water is very difficult to
control accurately.