Imagine you’re a kid who wants to know what time it is, but all you have is the sun. That’s how clocks started! People used sun dials when they couldn’t see the clock face, and later made hourglasses with sand that flowed like tiny rivers of time. Today we use digital clocks, which light up numbers to tell us the time quickly. All these are just different kinds of clocks, each one helps people know the time in a way that suits their lives.
Examples
- A farmer uses a sun dial to know when to start working.
- A child plays with an hourglass as it slowly runs out of sand.
- Your phone shows you the time on a digital clock.
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See also
- How Did the Pyramids Stay Standing for Thousands of Years?
- Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
- How Does the Ancient Roman Calendar Work?
- How Did Ancient Civilizations Count Without Numbers?
- How Do We Know What People Thought Long Ago?
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