
Timekeeping
Patented: History of Inventions
Are Clocks Really a Toy?
In the earliest days, are clocks like an amusing toy? Are they really useful? What function are they performing in these early societies? I mean, we can go back as far as we care to look. And what we can see is that these devices were used to order, to provide order in societies. So going back thousands of years, we can see some quite modern ideas in the way people talked about sundials or water clocks.
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