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Eventually, someone, in a fit of extreme boredom (or insatiable excitement), would have taken a small dinosaur bone to the cave wall and scratched in some sort of measurements... maybe something like... "Been here 40 days now, very cold, gigantic creatures abound... HECK... What's that!!?..." If only we could go back to those days... (perhaps just for a quick visit!) Maybe those first cave wall scratches were the beginning of calendars and timekeeping devices...
From there, as we slowly evolved, we created sundials, candle (and water) clocks and even used an hourglass to measure and indicate an arbitrary period of time... In 1840 Alexander Bain came to the rescue and patented the electric clock. His cool idea removed the need for winding, and, you guessed it... saved us even more time! And now, you'll find calendars and timekeeping devices such as talking clocks, digital clocks, atomic clocks, and a thousand more... all created to help us manage our precious time better... Strangely enough this whole website is about that exact subject... calendars-and-timekeeping - and managing our 'life-time' better... :) So that does means I'd better give you exactly what you want here... Actually - it's quite a challenge to know if you want a calendar - or a clock... or some other timekeeping device... Either way, you can get a tempting taste of them in the slide shows below...
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