Sundials
Timeline & Basic Knowledge
Types of timekeeping devices
100

The amount of numbers present on a sundial.

What is the number 12?

100
The duration between periods that leads to an event.

What is time?

100

A timekeeping device on a digital device.

What is a digital clock?

200
The major disadvantage on a sundial.
What are cloudy days and nighttime?
200

Following the invention of time, the major breakthroughs its been a core fundamental of.

What is science, physics and math?

200

A timekeeping device that uses the sun to cast a shadow onto the time.

What is a sundial?

300

This ancient Egyptian timekeeping device, dependent on the sun, tells the time with a right-angle triangle called a gnomon and reflects a shadow onto the device.

What is a sundial?

300

The most precise clock used today.

What is an atomic clock?

300

The second clock ever made, and uses markings to indicate the time has past, and seeps water through a cup.

What is the water clock?

400
A part of a sundial that is placed on the line of latitude of your location.

What is a right angle triangle, or a gnomon.

400

The base 60 number system, developed by the sumarians, and is used today to tell time in seconds, minutes, and hours.

What is the sexagesimal number system?

400
A clock that uses winding to create energy, causing a tick in the clock hands.
What is, a mechanical clock?
500

The bigger form of a sundial.

What is an obelisk?

500

This period of time is 9,192,631,770 vibrations.

What is a second?

500

An item with a piece of quartz, and an electric oscillator at its core that precisely tells time with 32,768+ vibrations in a second.

What is a quartz clock?