The astronomer and mathematician pierre simon laplace among other individuals modified the dial of his pocket watch to decimal time.
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The most familiar example is the cuckoo clock.
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The water clock was used by the ancient greeks.
Figuring out the time is easy these days whether with inexpensive wristwatches or the ubiquitous cell phone clock.
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Another very early form of clock to tell the time was the water clock.
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The romans also used water clocks which they calibrated from a sundial and so they could measure time even when the sun was not shining at night or on foggy days.
Our modern day system of using a base 60 time system that is a 60 minute and 60 second increment clock dates back to 2 000 b c.
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This shadow clock or sundial permitted one to measure the passage of hours within a day.
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Automaton clocks date back to the first century b c and are still.
There was another more advanced shadow clock or sundial in use by the ancient egyptians around 1500 bc.
While a cuckoo clock is simple automaton clocks are often extraordinarily elaborate consisting of dozens of figures that perform very involved routines.
Between 1794 and 1795 in the aftermath of the french revolution the french government briefly mandated decimal clocks with a day divided into 10 hours of 100 minutes each.
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An automaton clock is a timekeeping device that uses animated figures to mark the passing of the hours.
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The english word clock replaced the old english word daegmael meaning day measure.