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Updated: May 31, 2025
So I spoke to him about other matters, and all the while watched the monkey. Soon I saw that it was ill at ease. It began to tear at its stomach and to whimper like a child. Then it foamed at the mouth, was seized with convulsions, and within a quarter of an hour by the water-clock was dead.
"I love to hear about mechanical contrivances—such as the water-clock and the little windmill," remarked George. "I suppose if Sir Isaac Newton had only thought of it, he might have found out the steam-engine, and railroads, and all the other famous inventions that have come into use since his day." "Very possibly he might," replied Mr.
The phonographic clock had but replaced the slave whose business, standing by the noiseless water-clock, it was to keep tale of the moments as they dropped, ages before they had been taught to tick. In the morning, on descending, I went first to the clerk's office to inquire for letters, thinking Hamage, who knew I would go to that hotel if any, might have addressed me there.
The first watches, Nuremberg eggs, as they were called, were not made by Peter Henlein until well on into the next century. The only method of measuring time with any accuracy in private houses was the clepsydra or water-clock, which measured the time intervals by the flow of a definite amount of water.
And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and murder and sudden death. A white man, wandering about the streets of Canton at night, was a challenge to such a catastrophe. Taber. Ruth stared thoughtfully at the waiting coolies. That did not sound like the name the young man had offered in the tower of the water-clock.
"But how long ago did you leave your mistress?" "It was the second hour of the night when I started," she replied. Agias glanced at the water-clock. "By Zeus!" he cried, "it is now the fourth hour! You have been two hours on the way! Immortal gods! What's to be done? Look here, Demetrius!" And he thrust the letter before his cousin, and explained its meaning as rapidly as he could.
Cardinal Cusanus suggested then that the water-clock should be employed for estimating the pulse frequency.
An "inch of time" refers to the sundial, which was known to the Chinese in the earliest ages, and was the only means they had for measuring time until the invention or introduction it is not certain which of the more serviceable clepsydra, or water-clock, already mentioned.
"Jade," said Ah Cum. She turned away from the doorway of the silk loom to observe. Pole coolies came joggling along with bobbing blocks of jade white jade, splashed and veined with translucent emerald green. "On the way to the cutters," said Ah Cum. "But we must be getting along if we are to lunch in the tower of the water-clock."
These civil honors were not incompatible with the enjoyment of leisure and tranquillity; his hours, according to the demands of pleasure or reason, were accurately distributed by a water-clock; and this avarice of time may be allowed to prove the sense which Maximus entertained of his own happiness.
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