From sundials to atomic clocks, our understanding of time has become a lot more accurate as technological developments ...

IN these days of accurate clocks and watches no one thinks of using a sun dial to tell the time of day. At best such an instrument can be right but four times a year, and in many places it can ...

Waynesville has a new claim to fame — a large, metallic sundial installed on the lawn of the Folkmoot Friendship Center. And ...

Visible on Google Maps, the unusual structure is stationed in a remote spot in Nevada, about 80 miles (130km) northwest of ...

The tower has what looks like a long, looping dirt pile going around it in the shape of a noose and an imposing shadow from the Nevada sunshine – leading one Facebooker to call it a 'very accurate ...

The one point that is relatively easy to determine by using a sundial is local noon. But how do we make the sundial tell the time accurately, how do we get a clock to chime, and with the rough ...

He was unmoved by literature and poetry but loved mechanics and technology, inventing an elaborate system of sundials which was accurate to the minute. While his mother hoped he would run the ...