Today, when they are but familiar constraints upon our hectic lives, it is difficult for many of us to imagine that time and space were once man’s greatest mysteries.

All men have perpetually pondered the very substance of time and space; the year, the seasons, the days, nights and hours; the universe, this planet, the continents and oceans. From antiquity and even into the Renaissance, time and space tied a knot of wonder to be unraveled by inquiring men with the use of astrolabes, spheres, sundials, hourglasses and other instruments of observation and representation.

Before you purchase any clocks or best wall clocks for your home decor, allow me to give some details about the clock evolution or origin clocks that we commonly seen in most home.

Back in time, the timepiece use was simply the shadow clock or sundial in Egypt, that was based on the shadow cast of the sun as it moves across the sky, other version of clock in Greeks is the water clocks that were based on the flow of water. These water clocks are not accurate because the flow of water is not totally regulated.

Early in 1852, pendulum clock was invented and it became a standard in most astronomical observatories. This pendulum clock was the prototype of now grandfather clock. The first wrist-watches were made by using LED or Light Emitting Diode that was later replaced by LCD or Liquid Crystal Display. The next one to emerge in the industry is the Quartz Clock that continued to dominate because of accuracy and reliability in performance.

We have come to depend on such precise measurements of time even now in our modern life. Clocks help us to manage our time and get to the place on time even from the beginning a hundred years ago.

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