Legend has it that and engineer working in his father’s barbershop led him to discover not only the first working clock, but also the pipe organ, launching the field of pneumatics in the process.

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MR. OVERTON has given us a most useful and interesting volume, describing the gradual evolution of timepieces from the early water clocks, through the balance clock, down to the modern pendulum ...

3. Clepsydras – not a nasty skin condition, but another kind of clock! Clepsydras, or water clocks, tracked the passage of time by regulating the flow of water from one vessel to another.

Eden Prairie’s Town Center Water Tower repainting project is near completion, according to City Manager Rick Getschow’s blog. The last items for completion were to: “refurbish the ...