La Historia Del Reloj(En Ingles)

The history of clock

Given the need to control the time of ancient civilizations were guided by the day and night or cycles of the moon.
The first clock created by man was the site indicating thetimes of day by the sun's shadow., Estimated that the Chinese used it about 3000 years before Christ, was also employed by the Egyptians and Incas. These watches had the disadvantage of being zero atdawn, dusk, cloudy days and night.
The Romans marked candles in the form of rule to control the time at night.
Water clocks were used in Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Is guided by means of waterpassing a graduated container to another. As this system, the predecessor to the hourglass. The Hourglass highlighted in the third century. It consisted of two spherical glass containers togetherwith a narrow channel that connected the two sides reaching to control an entire day.
According to the books of Alfonso X "El Sabio" copilados in the year 1267/77 the time was controlled with acontinuous and regular Rotary movement mechanically. By this mechanism the mechanical clock was born, based on these principles was constant evolution until today. Taking fundamental relationship LEONARDO DAVINCI, GALILEO, Huygens, Hooke, and many more who contributed their knowledge and ingenuity to change and improvement.
The first engine clock weight was created by Pacific in the eighth century. Inthe decade of 1300 it was possible to see these clocks in churches in Europe. The oldest clock is kept in the Cathedral of Salisbury and the like in Reven and Wells.
In Switzerland, between the rangesof the Jura and the Alps, back in 1535 a significant number of refugees head to Geneva to escape religious persecution, finding peace in these places want indisputable basis for the technical craftof those who forged the machine to control time.
Other refugees are aimed at Neuchâtel, Germany, going into the Black Forest, forests of spruce and beech intensely colored, sometimes dark, have...