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History of Timekeeping Devices - From Ancient to Digital Devices History of Watches Home Watch HistoryClock HistoryClock FactsClocks Inventors Home » Clock History » History of Timekeeping Devices History of Timekeeping Devices Tracking of time via mechanical or other means appeared over 5500 years ago in the Ancien

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For thousands of years, devices have been used to measure and keep track of time . The current sexagesimal system of time measurement dates to approximately nbsp BCE from the Sumer ians. The Ancient Egypt ians divided the day into two periods, and used large obelisk s to track the movement of the sun . They also develo