The majority of Germans wants to abolish the watch changeover. Maybe in 2019 conclusion with the summer and winter time. Reason enough to let the history of the measurement of time to reminisce.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Sundial
Even the ancient Egyptians knew this Form of time measurement. A sundial is popular even today. In some cities, you can find the Ur-mother of all clocks in public Parks or on buildings, where works of art are presented. People feel attracted to the sun watches. However, there is a disadvantage: If the sun is not shining, does not reveal the time.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Hourglass
The hourglass behaves more like a stopwatch, since only the already elapsed time and not absolute time is measured. The time is up, when the Sand has run through. Since the early middle ages it is to be hourglasses. Even today, they are popular. The curves of the hourglass are compared with the Silhouette of a woman, including wasp-waist.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Water Clock
Thus, modern water look watch today here as a sculpture in a shopping centre. Water clocks have actually been around since the 16th century. Century BC, The principle is the same as in the case of sand watches The flow of time is measured by the flow of a mass (in this case, water). By the way, you can lead to the expression “time is up” on the water clock.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Pocket Watch
Before the watch came on the market, it was the pocket watch, the predominant timepiece. On a chain, the Lord wore the clip in the pocket. Nowadays, the pocket watch is announced as a cult object, especially in the case of Hipsters. Also, women are now to pocket watches. Good taste is finally no difference between a man and a woman.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Luxury Watch
The market of luxury watches seem to be not saturated. Brand names such as Rolex, Omega, Rado and Tag Heuer for many people only an abstract concept, because the chic watches, the brand companies are unaffordable for the majority. For the Rich and Beautiful they are only beginners models. In the high-price Segment of the wrist can cost jewelry over a million euros.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Swatch Revolution
Who owns the luxury watch is too expensive, you can at least acquire fun models. In the 1980s and 1990s, the watch company Swatch entered the market and gave everyone the opportunity to decorate his wrist with a colourful object. The Swiss plastic watches were quickly cult. Collector’s items are now being traded for several Thousand euros.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Time Clock
But there are also watches that hardly anyone is happy. The time clock, which is used as an instrument of control in the factories and firms, would be an example. Daily so the exact working times to be recorded. A machine monitored the productivity of each worker. Was invented the time clock is supposedly the end of the 19th century. Century in the German Empire.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Parking Meter
Also, the meter allows many people to despair. It is in urgent need of 50-Cent pieces, they are nowhere to be found. You stay too long, there’s a Parking ticket. The meter is a Symbol for the chicanery of modern life. It is has been around for a long time: The first Parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935 in the USA. Since money is Small more popular than ever!
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A brief history of time measurement
The Atomic Clock
For those who like it very carefully and be 100 percent accurate, there is the atomic clock. This ultra-modern timepiece that exist outside the sphere of influence of the force of gravity and determine exactly the time – no matter which time zone you are currently residing. A wrist-atomic watches do not fit. And affordable you are not. The international atomic time is measured in Paris.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Smartwatch
The future holds in the watch sector, some Surprises. So digital Smartwatch models are becoming more and more popular. Some of the Minicomputer, normal watches will soon be superfluous? At the Baselworld fair in Switzerland since the 23. March new fashion trends in wrist watch is presented.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Sundial
Even the ancient Egyptians knew this Form of time measurement. A sundial is popular even today. In some cities, you can find the Ur-mother of all clocks in public Parks or on buildings, where works of art are presented. People feel attracted to the sun watches. However, there is a disadvantage: If the sun is not shining, does not reveal the time.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Hourglass
The hourglass behaves more like a stopwatch, since only the already elapsed time and not absolute time is measured. The time is up, when the Sand has run through. Since the early middle ages it is to be hourglasses. Even today, they are popular. The curves of the hourglass are compared with the Silhouette of a woman, including wasp-waist.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Water Clock
Thus, modern water look watch today here as a sculpture in a shopping centre. Water clocks have actually been around since the 16th century. Century BC, The principle is the same as in the case of sand watches The flow of time is measured by the flow of a mass (in this case, water). By the way, you can lead to the expression “time is up” on the water clock.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Pocket Watch
Before the watch came on the market, it was the pocket watch, the predominant timepiece. On a chain, the Lord wore the clip in the pocket. Nowadays, the pocket watch is announced as a cult object, especially in the case of Hipsters. Also, women are now to pocket watches. Good taste is finally no difference between a man and a woman.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Luxury Watch
The market of luxury watches seem to be not saturated. Brand names such as Rolex, Omega, Rado and Tag Heuer for many people only an abstract concept, because the chic watches, the brand companies are unaffordable for the majority. For the Rich and Beautiful they are only beginners models. In the high-price Segment of the wrist can cost jewelry over a million euros.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Swatch Revolution
Who owns the luxury watch is too expensive, you can at least acquire fun models. In the 1980s and 1990s, the watch company Swatch entered the market and gave everyone the opportunity to decorate his wrist with a colourful object. The Swiss plastic watches were quickly cult. Collector’s items are now being traded for several Thousand euros.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Time Clock
But there are also watches that hardly anyone is happy. The time clock, which is used as an instrument of control in the factories and firms, would be an example. Daily so the exact working times to be recorded. A machine monitored the productivity of each worker. Was invented the time clock is supposedly the end of the 19th century. Century in the German Empire.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Parking Meter
Also, the meter allows many people to despair. It is in urgent need of 50-Cent pieces, they are nowhere to be found. You stay too long, there’s a Parking ticket. The meter is a Symbol for the chicanery of modern life. It is has been around for a long time: The first Parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935 in the USA. Since money is Small more popular than ever!
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A brief history of time measurement
The Atomic Clock
For those who like it very carefully and be 100 percent accurate, there is the atomic clock. This ultra-modern timepiece that exist outside the sphere of influence of the force of gravity and determine exactly the time – no matter which time zone you are currently residing. A wrist-atomic watches do not fit. And affordable you are not. The international atomic time is measured in Paris.
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A brief history of time measurement
The Smartwatch
The future holds in the watch sector, some Surprises. So digital Smartwatch models are becoming more and more popular. Some of the Minicomputer, normal watches will soon be superfluous? At the Baselworld fair in Switzerland since the 23. March new fashion trends in wrist watch is presented.
Time will tell – time heals all wounds – Everything takes time – The time is ripe.
No other basic principle has the people so much as the time. In particular, to the time when the time changes. For example, in the case of the time change in spring and autumn. In the night from 25. on the 26. March it’s that time again: Everything will be changed in Europe in the summer time – only the internal clock does not play immediately.
Every Fourth suffers even under the time change, reacts with insomnia, nervousness, and fatigue. This is only after about a week. This effect also occurs during long flights to stretch across different time zones. In the subsequent jet-lag you realize that the human body is turning so fast.
No other theme is as timeless as time itself. All of the art equipment for the measurement of time, from sundials to wristwatches, survive for generations, even centuries. Sun clocks there were in the monasteries of Europe in the middle ages – and they work today. The man is more transient than that with which he measures his time.
However, the measurement of time is almost an art form. Fashion plays an equally large role as the natural Sciences. Every grain of sand in the hourglass counts as a unit of time and must be accurately measured. This is not to say that the craft of the artist should be.
In the course of the modern era has changed the measurement of time. Hardly, it was thought that the cell phone had replaced the watch, perhaps, the merger of both objects to a Smartwatch. But also you have to switch to summer time. Occasion for us, different timepieces to present.