| Clocks can be found almost everywhere. We notice | | | | effort to tell the time was to determine the position of |
| them at train stations, in hallways, in hospitals, in living | | | | the sun. He used the movement of the sun across the |
| rooms and in offices. Clocks are part of our everyday | | | | sky to denote what time of day it was. So he came |
| lives. We use them to regulate our activities in various | | | | up with terms such as sunrise when the sun was on |
| ways such as when to board the bus or return home | | | | the eastern horizon, midday when it was overhead |
| from work. But have you ever wondered how clocks | | | | and sunset when it was on the western horizon but all |
| came into existence at all? | | | | of these denotations were not accurate. For example |
| What we know of today as clocks has a long history. | | | | if the sun was positioned somewhere between |
| This time telling device is one of the most astonishing | | | | midday and sunset, what time was it? These |
| inventions ever created by man because throughout | | | | difficulties resulted in renewed efforts to find a more |
| the ages he had wondered how he will know when to | | | | suitable way to tell the time. |
| do what. You will appreciate this concern if you look at | | | | The first concrete attempt at was what we would call |
| the origin of the word clock. The word clock comes | | | | a clock was the sundial and it was first used in 3500 |
| from the Latin word Clocca which means a bell. A bell | | | | BC. This was a simple piece of equipment that used |
| tells people when to stop or start doing something. It | | | | the shadow of the sun to point to dials on a disk, and |
| announces time. So clocks were developed to | | | | thus tell the time of the day. |
| regulate human activities. | | | | So you see how far wall clocks have come? |
| We are so used to modern wall clocks that we forget | | | | Shortcomings in previous concepts led to innovations |
| about the early attempts of man to design a time | | | | that led us to the accurate clocks we see today. |
| telling device. It is widely accepted that man's first | | | | |