A few days ago
Random Guy

history of timekeeping?

can somebody tell me where i can find a timeline of the historical outline of devices used to measure time, and those credited for their development?

thanks

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A few days ago
LucySD

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I think the appropriate word is EUREKA! I think I found just the link you want

Links include both ancient and modern methods of measuring time.

http://www.aresearchguide.com/time.html

…………NAVIGATE Contents………….

CONTENTS

Calendars

Daylight Saving Time

History & Science of Time

Leap Year

Lesson Plans on Time

Local Time & Time Zones

Measuring Time – Clocks

Measuring Time – Sundials

Miscellaneous Sites on Time

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…….Bonus Answers….lol!

The place where time begins

St. Petersburg Times on line Opinion

http://www.sptimes.com/News/122699/Opinion/The_place_where_time_.shtml

excerpt.

The capital-T Time of Einsteinian physics is still a mystery: We don’t yet understand all its ways.

Telling Time in Ancient Rome

http://www.dl.ket.org/latin3/mores/techno/time/tellingtime.htm

Reckoning Time: Ancient Day-Counts

By

Charles William Johnson

http://www.earthmatrix.com/reckoning_time.html

……scroll down to ……….

………….Extract

The subject of ancient reckoning of time and space can only be inferred from the logic of numbers, with very few exceptions of data in the historical record.

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