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    Water clocks are some of the oldest time-measuring instruments, dating back to at least the 16th century BCE when they existed in Babylon and Egypt. Water clocks work by regulating the flow of liquid either into or out of a vessel, where markings on the vessel indicate the passage of time. The Greeks and Romans later advanced water clock design to incorporate gears, feedback systems, and escapement mechanisms for improved accuracy. While never as accurate as modern timepieces, water clocks were the most commonly used timekeeping device for millennia until being replaced by pendulum clocks in the 17th century.

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    Water clocks are some of the oldest time-measuring instruments, dating back to at least the 16th century BCE when they existed in Babylon and Egypt. Water clocks work by regulating the flow of liquid either into or out of a vessel, where markings on the vessel indicate the passage of time. The Greeks and Romans later advanced water clock design to incorporate gears, feedback systems, and escapement mechanisms for improved accuracy. While never as accurate as modern timepieces, water clocks were the most commonly used timekeeping device for millennia until being replaced by pendulum clocks in the 17th century.

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    Water clocks are some of the oldest time-measuring instruments, dating back to at least the 16th century BCE when they existed in Babylon and Egypt. Water clocks work by regulating the flow of liquid either into or out of a vessel, where markings on the vessel indicate the passage of time. The Greeks and Romans later advanced water clock design to incorporate gears, feedback systems, and escapement mechanisms for improved accuracy. While never as accurate as modern timepieces, water clocks were the most commonly used timekeeping device for millennia until being replaced by pendulum clocks in the 17th century.

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    Water clock

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    For the individual water clock at The Children's
    Museum of Indianapolis, see Water clock
    (Indianapolis).
    This article is missing information
    about contrasting descriptions of
    different types of water
    clocks. Please expand the article to
    include this information. Further
    details may exist on the talk
    page. (December 2015)

    A display of two outflow water clocks from the


    Ancient Agora Museum in Athens. The top is an
    original from the late 5th century BC. The
    bottom is a reconstruction of a clay original.
    A water
    clock or clepsydra (Greek κλεψύδρα from
    κλέπτειν kleptein, 'to steal'; ὕδωρ hydor, 'water')
    is any timeecepi in which time is measured by
    the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or
    out from (outflow type) a vessel where the
    amount is then measured.
    Water clocks are some of the oldest time-
    measuring instruments.[1] Where and when they
    were first invented is not known, and given their
    great antiquity it may never be. The bowl-
    shaped outflow is the simplest form of a water
    clock and is known to have existed
    in Babylon and in Egypt around the 16th
    century BCE. Other regions of the world,
    including India and China, also have early
    evidence of water clocks, but the earliest dates
    are less certain. Some authors, however, claim
    that water clocks appeared in China as early as
    4000 BCE.[2]
    Some modern timepieces are called "water
    clocks" but work differently from the ancient
    ones. Their timekeeping is governed by
    a pendulum, but they use water for other
    purposes, such as providing the power needed
    to drive the clock by using a water wheel or
    something similar, or by having water in their
    displays.
    The Greeks and Romans advanced water clock
    design to include the inflow clepsydra with an
    early feedback system, gearing,
    and escapement mechanism, which were
    connected to fanciful automata and resulted in
    improved accuracy. Further advances were
    made in Byzantium, Syria and Mesopotamia,
    where increasingly accurate water clocks
    incorporated complex segmental and epicyclic
    gearing, water wheels, and programmability,
    advances which eventually made their way
    to Europe. Independently, the Chinese
    developed their own advanced water clocks,
    incorporating gears, escapement mechanisms,
    and water wheels, passing their ideas on
    to Korea and Japan[citation needed].
    Some water clock designs were developed
    independently and some knowledge was
    transferred through the spread of trade. These
    early water clocks were calibrated with
    a sundial. While never reaching a level of
    accuracy comparable to today's standards of
    timekeeping, the water clock was the most
    accurate and commonly used timekeeping
    device for millennia, until it was replaced by
    more accurate pendulum clocks in 17th-century
    Europe.
    A water clock uses a flow of water to measure
    time. If viscosity is neglected, the physical
    principle required to study such clocks
    is Torricelli's law. There are two types of water
    clocks: inflow and outflow. In an outflow water
    clock, a container is filled with water, and the
    water is drained slowly and evenly out of the
    container. This container has markings that are
    used to show the passage of time. As the water
    leaves the container, an observer can see
    where the water is level with the lines and tell
    how much time has passed. An inflow water
    clock works in basically the same way, except
    instead of flowing out of the container, the water
    is filling up the marked container. As the
    container fills, the observer can see where the
    water meets the lines and tell how much time
    has passed.

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