the history of timekeeping
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Apresentação que eu fiz em 2004 para meu speech, eu cursava inglês no CCAA. Hoje em dia eu olho para trás e vejo que só escolhia temas esquisitos... haha. O texto do meu trabalho está aqui: http://www.karensoarele.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/The-History-of-Timekepeeing.docTRANSCRIPT
The History of
TimekeepingKaren Isabelle SoaresKarla Natalia Queiroz
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Using the Sun
noon
sunsetsunrise
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Sundial Clocks
Oldest type of clock Also called sun
clocks
The shadow points to a number
Depend on the sun
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Water Clocks Around 4,000 B.C. Babylon, Egypt, India or China Water traveled through a tube Tell time during the night
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Dividing the Year into Months
12 Moon cycles in a year Greeks divided the year in 12 months
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Dividing the Year into Days
They divided the month in 30 days 360 Days in a year 360 Degrees in a circle
90°
180°
270°
360°
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Dividing the Day into Hours Egyptians and Babylonians Sunrise to sunset in 12 hours, sunset to sunrise also in
12 hours Whole day in 24 hours
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Minutes and Seconds
Sumerian Sexagenary Sistem
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Mechanical Clocks
Invented in medieval Europe
Common in churches and monasteries
“Clock” is from the Latin word “clocca”
One time-keeping hand
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Spring-powered Clocks Around 1500 Became very popular among the rich Was the precursor to accurate timekeeping
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Pendulum Clocks Developed by Christian Huygens around 1656 Pendulum clock had a minute hand Used to swing a lot (about 50 degrees) They stopped running after a while and had to be
restarted
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Quartz Crystal Clocks Based on an electric property of the quartz crystal When you apply voltage, or electricity, and pressure, the
quartz crystal vibrates or oscillates at a very constant frequency.
Very precise
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Time Zones In 1884, delegates from 25 countries divided the world
into time zones. The delegates divided the 360 degrees of the Earth into
24 zones of 15 degrees each. In the United States, there are four time zones: Eastern,
Central, Mountain, and Pacific.