Visual Timeline: Timekeeping

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1600 BCE: Earliest Egyptian water clocks in use.
 
450 BCE: Parapegma star calendar invented in Greece by Meton and Euctemon.
 
450 BCE: First klepsydra - water timekeeping device - used in Athens.
 
275 BCE: Ctesibius invents first sophisticated multi-cogged water-clock.
 
159 BCE: First water-clock set up in Rome.
 
 
110 BCE - 50 BCE: Tower of The Winds by Andronicus constructed in Athens.
 
50 BCE: Antikythera instrument invented, an astronomical measuring device.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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