clock, mechanical or electrical device other than a watch for displaying time. A clock is a machine in which a device that performs regular movements in equal intervals of time is linked to a counting mechanism that records the number of movements. All clocks, of whatever form, are made on this principle. See also atomic clock; nuclear clock.

1. clock
measurement device
clock, mechanical or electrical device other than a watch for displaying time. A clock is a machine in
which a device that performs regular movements in equal intervals of time is linked to a counting
mechanism that records the number of movements. All clocks, of whatever form, are made on this
principle. See also atomic clock; nuclear clock.
Components of a simple weight-driven clock.
The origin of the all-mechanical escapement clock is unknown; the first such devices may have been
invented and used in monasteries to toll a bell that called the monks to prayers. The first mechanical
clocks to which clear references exist were large, weight-driven machines fitted into towers and known
today as turret clocks. These early devices struck only the hours and did not have hands or a dial.
The Gros-Horloge (Great Clock), Rouen, Fr.
The oldest surviving clock in England is that at Salisbury Cathedral, which dates from 1386. A clock
erected at Rouen, France, in 1389 is still extant, and one built for Wells Cathedral in England is preserved
in the Science Museum in London. The Salisbury clock strikes the hours, and those of Rouen and Wells
also have mechanisms for chiming at the quarter hour. These clocks are large, iron-framed structures
driven by falling weights attached to a cord wrapped around a drum and regulated by a mechanism
known as a verge (or crown wheel) escapement. Their errors probably were as large as a half hour per
day. The first domestic clocks were smaller wall-mounted versions of these large public clocks. They
appeared late in the 14th century, and few examples have survived; most of them, extremely austere in
design, had no cases or means of protection from dust.
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Time-Measuring Devices throughout Ages
It is easy to see what time it is by just checking your cellphone or your wristwatch; however, it
was not always that easy. Time is relative; depending on the activities that you engage in, time
can pass quickly or slowly. As it is not convenient to rely on your personal feelings when it comes
to measuring time, people have come up with devices that accurately specify how much time has

2. actually passed. Do you know who invented the first watch? When did people begin to measure
time?
Primitive man had to rely on observing the Sun to figure out the time; an example of early devices
used to measure time is the sundial. It can be in the shape of an obelisk; when the Sun moves,
the obelisk casts its shadow on the ground, reaching marked signs on the ground through which
people predict time. The Egyptians used the sundial to measure time, and so did the Greeks and
the Romans.
The hourglass, also called the sand clock, is another time-measuring device. It has two glass bulbs
connected with a tube through which sand can slowly trickle from one glass bulb into another.
Depending on the amount of sand, its quality and the size of the glass bulb, time is calculated;
sand clocks can be reused simply by flipping them over. It is claimed that a French monk
Liutprand invented the hourglass in the 8th century.
Water clocks are, also, simple devices to measure the time. Water would be left to drip out of a
container or a bowl slowly; the container is marked from the inside, and the water level will easily
predict the time. Water clocks are ancient; they date back to 16th century BCE Babylon.