Mindsuggestions: How A clock and watches Works
Mindsuggestions: How A clock and watches Works: How A clock and watches Works Y ou may not believe in astrology, but there's no question the planets rule our lives. We get up w...
How A clock and watches Works
How A clock and watches Works Y ou may not believe in astrology, but there's no question the planets rule our lives. We get up when the Sun rises (or some time after) and go to bed when it sets. We have a calendar based on days, months, and years—periods of time that relate to how the Moon and Earth move around the Sun in the sky. For most of history, people found this kind of "astronomical timekeeping" good enough for their needs. But as the world became ever more frantic and sophisticated, people needed to keep track of hours, minutes, and seconds as well as days, months, and years. That meant we needed accurate ways of keeping time. Pendulum clocks and mechanical watches used to be the best way of doing this. Today, many people use quartz clocks and watches instead—but what are they and how do they work? How ordinary clocks work We all know that a clock keeps time, but have you ever stopped to think about how it does so? Probably the simplest cl...
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