Posts tagged ‘time’

How time actually tricks us

Time is truly a complicated matter. Remember how as a child you were waiting for your birthday and how it seemed to […]

04/12/2016. Category: info. Tags:

The most famous watches and clocks in history

We all need to tell the time – but some watches and clocks have gone down in history as devices or monuments […]

04/01/2015. Category: technology. Tags: , ,

The Third Millennium

The third millennium started at about 21h00 on 31 December 2000. Basically, the year 2000 is celebrated one year earlier because the […]

02/07/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: , ,

History of the calendar

In September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar […]

02/04/2010. Category: did you know. Tags: , ,

Oldest clock in the world

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia, who is thought to have invented writing in the 4th century BC, based their numerical system on powers […]

08/28/2009. Category: technology. Tags: , , ,

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