Sentence examples for timekeeping instruments from inspiring English sources

The Egyptians therefore developed a number of alternative timekeeping instruments, including water clocks, and a system for tracking star movements.

The most accurate timekeeping devices are atomic clocks, which are accurate to seconds in many millions of years, and are used to calibrate other clocks and timekeeping instruments.

Accurate to within a few seconds over many thousands of years, they are used to calibrate other clocks and timekeeping instruments.

When looking at a smart watch I would propose something like the Butch Test – can this watch retain its value as a timekeeping instrument and item of value even after spending seven years in a place unconducive to a delicate object?

Today, almost fourteen billion years later, in a universe dense with cell phones, iPods, microwave ovens, and other objects displaying the current hour, minute, and second, the need for personal instruments dedicated solely to timekeeping is similarly close to nil.

July 25 , 1639 November 20 1713 London, England Thomas Tompion, (baptized July 25 , 1639 Ickwell Green, Northill, Bedfordshire, Eng. died Nov. 20, 1713, London), English maker of clocks, watches, and scientific instruments who was a pioneer of improvements in timekeeping mechanisms that set new standards for the quality of their workmanship.

In another gallery Japanese pillar clocks from the 18th and 19th centuries are mounted on the wall, looking like the necks of string instruments with sliding adjustable markers to signal the changing, unequal hour lengths according to Japan's traditional mode of timekeeping.

His timekeeping was correct.

Poor timekeeping practices have".

Timekeeping is an agreement among humans.

The timekeeping rule is almost never enforced.