A stick's shadow, sundials, clocks, watches and wristwatches have all made it easier for a person to tell time. The earliest known sundial dates from about 800 B.C. The first pendulum clock was made ...

Seattle's best little oxymoron, the Denny Regrade sundial, has been put where the sun don't shine. Sort of. The Marvin Black memorial sundial, erected a couple of decades ago to honor the city's ...

GRAND RAPIDS — In elementary school we all learn how to tell time on a clock….but have you ever learned how to tell time using the sun? Today we are going to learn how to make and use a sundial! So ...

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Pocket watches are all well and good, but they have some caveats. They either need regular rewinding, or they need batteries. Sundials on the other hand need only the light from our One True Sun.

Mars is about to be invaded by three successive spacecraft carrying sophisticated scientific instruments, six-wheeled robotic "rovers" and two sundials from Seattle. The planned landing on Christmas ...

If you have access to a 3D printer you may be interested in creating your very own digital sundial created by Mojoptix a few years ago. The sundial requires no batteries or electronics and uses the ...

Sometimes, everyone wants to stop time in its tracks, especially after we start losing precious daylight minutes each day. As summer turns to fall, the sun sits lower in the sky. That can mean only ...

It’s good to know that some technologies still work. A sundial in downtown Joplin proves that. At about 1:05 p.m. on Thursday, I took a picture of the sundial at 111 W. Third St, right across the ...

Chalk it up to a misspent youth reading way too many steampunk novels if you like, but there’s something inexplicably cool about combining futuristic and past technology to create something fresh.

About 2,000 years ago, a Roman politician celebrated his victory by commissioning a sundial and putting it on display for all to see, according to archaeologists who just discovered the ancient ...

There’s a lot of focus these days on solar energy, on harnessing the light from our nearest star to fuel our daily activities. Plants, of course, have been doing just that for millions of years.