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- From: mongoose@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Conrad Leviston)
- Subject: Re: "period" wristwatches
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:52:24 GMT
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- G.Guth (guth@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca) wrote:
- : On the topic of telling the time, just when were the first pocket watches
- : made? I have a feeling that they, in their earliest forms, are not too
- : OOP.
- :
- : Which leads to another question...how did ladies and gentlemen of means
- : tell time in period? I'm especially interested in late period. Was it
- : sundials all the way through?
-
- There were a number ways of telling time in period, one of which
- was marked candles (the candle burns to the five O'Clock mark at five
- O'Clock etc.). I don't know if water timing is quite period, but this
- should not be too difficult to research. |-)
-
- :
- : Just curious..
- : Richard Britnell of Salisbury.
- :
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