THE CLOCK

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 ITS APPEARENCE AND
FUNCTION
It is a circular object that indicates the time using two (or three to also show seconds) hands. The longer one shows
minutes and the shorter one shows hours. From water powered clocks to our present mechanical and digital
clocks, mostly digital clocks as they are becoming almost an equal to a mobile phone
 ITS HISTORY

IT FIRST BEGAN WITH THE SHADOW CLOCKS, WHICH WERE THEN DESIGNED
INTO SUNDIALS BY THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS WHICH FOUND OUT THAT
TIME CAN BE MEASURED WITH THE SUN AND MOON. WATER CLOCKS WERE
ALSO INVENTED AND THEY ALL DATE BACK TO THE TIME OF ANCIENT EGYPT
FROM 1500 BC AND LATER TO THE BABYLONIANS, GREEKS AND THE CHINESE
 ITS PURPOSE AND CHANGE IN OUR LIVES

• AS PEOPLE COULD NOT USUALLY TELL WHAT TIME IT WAS DURING THE DAY

OR IF IT WAS GETTING CLOSE TO NIGHT, THE CLOCK USED TO BE AND STILL
IS A VERY IMPORTANT INVENTION. ALSO, ITS FUNCTION CAN CHANGE BASED
ON ITS MECHANISM. FOR EXAMPLE, WE CAN USE THE STOPWATCH WHICH
CAN MEASURE A TIME PERIOD AND THEN BE STOPPED TO SEE THE RESULTS.
OVERALL, I THINK WE COULD NOT LIVE WITHOUT IT
 ITS CHANGE DURING THE YEARS

• OVER THE YEARS IT HAS CHANGED A LOT. IT ALWAYS IMPROVED UPON THE
LAST DESIGN FOR EXAMPLE THE PENDULUM CLOCK WHICH HAD AN ERROR
DUE TO TEMPERATURE VARIATION WAS LATER REPLACED BY THE ELECTRIC
CLOCK WHICH USED A QUARTZ TIMER WHICH DID NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM
 CLOCKS IN THE FUTURE

• I THINK THAT CLOCKS IN THE FUTURE WILL BE FULLY DIGITAL AND MAYBE
HOLOGRAFIC BUT I DO NOT THINK THAT THE MAIN FUNCTION OF
MEASURING TIME WON´T CHANGE AS IT WILL ALWAYS BE REQUIRED TO
KEEP TRACK OF TIME
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