Archive for the 'Clocks' Category
Brand Loyalty
Author: OuttaTime
Devoted to seeing the USA in your Chevrolet? Won’t own anything but a Toyota? Crazy about your Ford truck? When you can’t be behind the wheel enjoying the ride, automobile watches are one way to show your love for your favorite vehicle.
If you don’t like to wear watches, why not a mantle or wall clock with your choice of car emblem? Consider something with a little neon or something extra shiny to light your way around the house at night, but still keep you on schedule—just like those other finely tuned machines.
The History of the Clock
Author: OuttaTime
The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to consistently measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units, the day, the lunar month, and the year. Such measurement requires devices. Devices operating on several different physical processes have been used over the millennia, culminating in the clocks of today.
The sundial, which measures the time of day by the direction of shadows cast by the sun, was widely used in ancient times. A well-designed sundial can measure local solar time with reasonable accuracy, and sundials continued to be used to monitor the performance of clocks until the modern era. However, its practical limitations - it requires the sun to shine and does not work at all during the night - encouraged the use of other techniques for measuring time.
Today, clocks come in the variant forms, such as digital watches or novelty wall clocks that can fit an individual’s personality.