Legend has it that and engineer working in his father’s barbershop led him to discover not only the first working clock, but also the pipe organ, launching the field of pneumatics in the process.

It was named after the Greek water clock because, prior to a 1959 earthquake, it erupted every three minutes. This kind of clock has been around for many years and in many ancient cultures.

3. Clepsydras – not a nasty skin condition, but another kind of clock! Clepsydras, or water clocks, tracked the passage of time by regulating the flow of water from one vessel to another.

The authors posit that mechanical clocks could have developed in response to that curiosity and, perhaps, also out of a familiarity with other technologies, such as astrolabes and water clocks ...