clepsydra

He compares this process to what occurs in a clepsydra.

With the clepsydra taken away and the sun obscured, it was impossible to tell time.

The clepsydra does not work today because only the water holding vessels have survived.

A commonly used water clock was the simple outflow clepsydra.

Another device, used in antiquity, was called a "water thief," or clepsydra.

One of them, Clepsydra, has escaped and is hiding.

The name Clepsydra is derived from the Greek word for water clock.

To the right of the clepsydra sat a figure he recognized: Amalek.

In Greece, a water clock was known as a clepsydra (water thief).

The other fountain is a clepsydra, a water clock, made rather like a grandfather clock.

Unlike the clepsydra, the motion of the ship while sailing did not affect the hourglass.

However, the most common type of public and palace timekeeping device was the inflow clepsydra.

The clepsydra was a common utensil and everyone who used it must have known, in some sense, that the invisible air could resist liquid.

The explanation of a clepsydra or water clock was a popular topic in the Middle Ages.

Periods during night or day were measured by a water clock (clepsydra) that dripped at a steady rate and other methods.

NOD strikes the clepsydra, sending brass pans and water flying across the stage.

In its interior, there was also a water clock (or clepsydra), driven by water coming down from the Acropolis.

He also demonstrated an optical telegraph and proposed the use of his clepsydra (water clock) for keeping time on a ship at sea.

They introduced several types of the inflow clepsydra, one of which included the earliest feedback control system.

She also recalls reading a dictionary definition of "Clepsydra", a "water-clock" or water-glass.

Although the clepsydra was not invented in China, it was in use at an early stage of Chinese history.

The dull, unflavoured drops from life's clepsydra.

In the early 5th century clepsydra, lozenge and band, the old elements of the Italian geometric, are still in existence.

Bokermannohyla clepsydra is a species of frog in the Hylidae family.

Gaza clepsydra with automata.