One hour before clocks and watches
As time is measured up to an hour
How many times have you asked: "What time is it?" and appealed to his wrist, only to find you forgot your clock. We have been programmed to know how late it is and plan their lives around at the hands of the onion, turn the wrist and the response. This was not always so easy, even necessary, and you can see by clicking on the time before watches.
Day and Night
The accuracy with which we are currently today is light years from what it was like not so long ago. Time is measured with the full universe around us, and still is, in a sense, when you use the science of the physical and time to assess what one hour of work (more about that in Part 2). The earlier civilizations knew and trusted each day the sun came and went, and a block of time each day. To measure a few extensions, the moon and its cycles have also been reliably observed. The month was used to measure the time required for the technical one-month lunar month of 28 days and the time needed for the new moon and full moon again.
Ancient Civilization
Even more than observing the Moon, the Sun and planets, is the artifacts that show us that time is measured by a bit of accuracy. At the beginning of a calendar and clock "in Iraq now, once home of the ancient Sumerians, and consisted of the calendar is divided into segments of 30 days, depending on the cycle of the moon. It is divided into 12 sections, 2 hours at present. In addition, the calendar has been published in 30 other regions, there are currently 4 minutes.
Stonehenge in England and has more than 4000 years. Do not know much about this mysterious structure, but the way is positioned scientists believe that some are accustomed to the seasons and the phenomenon of lunar eclipses, and the like.
Sundials
In the Sumerian culture had died without information on their schedule until they found that more today. The next stage is a more precise measurement of time was the Egyptians. They set up an obelisk about 3500 BC, and today in the Washington Monument, which is well known guests. This tall, tapered monument shade all day, but in its original form for some time can be measured. In most cases, the changes between the first and second half of the day, and how to get to a shorter and more seasons.
Hour on the other side was the first time around 1500 BC and was significantly less time and portable devices. It is divided into 10 equal parts with the other two segments, and in the twilight of dawn. Hours after yourself to keep a pointer to a horizontal plate-shaped body, and the inscription on the lines outside the hours. It is anticipated that 30 BC, more than 13 different types of sundials, which in the development of society, in Asia Minor, Greece and Italy.
If you think about the accuracy of a well-made Swiss watch is difficult to imagine a time when the weather was so clear. The company can operate without a measurement time for a minute? Maybe in another millennium, the society will be surprised at how life in an instant.