A Brief Recap of the Clock’s History

A clock refers to an instrument where the gadget that carries out routine movements in uniform time intervals is joined to a counting device that keeps a record of the total number of movements. Every single clock, no matter what kind it is, works on this principle.

Now the term clock (which is derived from clocca, a Latin word which means "bell"), that slowly takes the place of "horologe", indicates that it indeed was the jingle of bells and this also typified the original mechanical clocks, which made an appearance in Europe in the thirteenth century.

The initial clocks were just a means of recording time by making use of the elements. This was achieved with the help of a sundial and also a clock manufactured in medieval Greece frequently attributed to Plato that made use of water trickling down from a bowl. Afterwards, the Romans acquired this clock and declared that it was theirs, referring to it as a Horologium.

Together with the sundials, water clocks are perhaps the most ancient devices of keeping time, save for the tally stick that counted days and the gnomon. Taking into account these fabulous relics of the olden days, the date and place of their earliest existence are unknown and possibly never will be known. The vessel-shaped outflow kind of clocks which are the plainest kind of water clocks, are acknowledged to have been in existence in Babylon as well as in Egypt somewhere in the sixteenth century B.C.E.
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