⏰ Who invented clocks and when?

Long, long ago, people wanted to know what time it was! 🌞 The first clocks were sun clocks called sundials. They used the sun's shadow to tell time. Later, clever people made clocks with gears and springs. The first mechanical clocks were invented in Europe around the 1300s. ⏳

Clocks help us know when to wake up, eat, or play! Isn't that cool? 😊

Clocks were invented step by step! ⌛ The earliest timekeepers were sundials, used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks over 3,500 years ago. Later, water clocks (clepsydras) and candle clocks measured time at night.

Mechanical clocks with gears appeared in Europe in the 14th century. They were big and often placed in towers! The first portable clocks (watches) came in the 1500s. 🔧

Today, we have super-accurate atomic clocks—they’re only wrong by 1 second every 100 million years! 🚀

The invention of clocks spans thousands of years! Here’s a quick timeline:

• 3500 BCE: Sundials in Egypt and Mesopotamia track daylight hours.
• 1400 BCE: Water clocks (clepsydras) measure time at night.
• 14th century: Mechanical clocks with escapement mechanisms appear in Europe.
• 1656: Christiaan Huygens builds the first pendulum clock, boosting accuracy.
• 20th century: Quartz and atomic clocks revolutionize timekeeping with precision.

No single person "invented" clocks—it was a global effort! 🌍⚙️