These thousand tiny bells quivered for some time with the vibration of the rope, then gradually died away, and finally became silent when the manikin had been brought into a state of immobility by that law of the pendulum which has dethroned the
water clock and the hour-glass.
He designed the sundial,
water clock and other devices for the king.
Clepsydra: (a) low value (b) trend (c) unsettling (d)
water clock 2.
The Ancient Agora Museum in Athens houses a host of artifacts related to Athenian democracy, including a clepsydra, or
water clock, which was used to impose time limits on speeches before tribunals and in political discourse in late fifth century B.C.
Finally, hats off to the musical
water clock installed in the square basin in which the GA[c]ode sits.
It is probably a verge and foliot clock because it was mounted over the rood screen where refilling a
water clock would be extremely difficult.
He also uses a drinking game to test whether it''s possible to create luck, as well as building a
water clock and making a coat that doubles as a bed.
But on its own small scale, the
water clock is a marvel.
An 11th century Chinese
water clock, its gears driven by a steady stream, might lose or gain 10 minutes a day--an accuracy of about a part in 100.
But our favourite was Hunkin's famous
water clock at the end of the pier.
Only the timed give and take, right hand and left, the rhythms of the
water clock ribs, this free flight of wind, lift of limb, bird wing of breath that chalice and paten the bones, the workaday canvas of harvest and prayer.
One of the focal features of this exhibition is a five-metre-high replica of the 'Elephant Clock'--a visually striking early-13th century
water clock, the body of which contains symbols referring different cultures and is featured alongside a short feature film starring Oscar-winning actor Sir Ben Kingsley as Al Jazari, inventor of the clock.
water clock - clock that measures time by the escape of water