A Little Bit History Of Clocks
People starting measuring time several thousands of years ago. It all started with sundials. Sundials measured time by calculating the speed of the sun’s movement and its shadow. Of course the clock didn’t work when it was dark so people started looking for other solutions.
One of these solutions was the waterclock. It worked by measuring the quantity of water flowing from one container to another. Waterclocks originate from Babylon and Egypt in the 16th century. Later the Greeks and Romans improved the clock.
And then there was the candleclock, invented at the end of the 16th century with a burning candle that could be finished within a predictable speed so people were able to estimate time.
In the 17th century the pendulum clock was invented by the Dutchman Christiaan Huygens. The clock became popular all over Europe. The most well known pendulum clock is the grandfather or chime clock. Grandfather clocks started conquering the entire European continent and were imported to the United States since the 18th century. Smaller grandfather clocks are called grandmother or granddaughter clocks, depending on their size. These clocks are usually divided into the modern style and the antique style. Antique style grandfather clocks are new reproductions of the original antique ones. The real old antique granddfather clocks are very popular as well, but usually very expensive.