"Waltham Lever Escapement. A device for the governing of speed is the one thing on which accurate time…
An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour, by the running of sand out of…
A cartoon of an older man carrying a large hourglass in one hand, and a knapsack in the other hand.
"The Knight and the Lady. By Albrecht Dürer. From the engraving on copper." -Heath, 1901
"In marching in double time the saber is carried diagonally across the breast, edge to the front; the…
"A form of Sun-dial that is as god to-day as any dial for determining noon." -Bodmer, 1917
The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower…