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Why We Keep Things We Never Use & The Reason We Keep Track of Time

Something You Should Know

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The First Mechanical Clock

In the mid 16 hundreds, people worked out how to make a pendulum clock. People doing astronomy find this incredibly useful. And so now we have things like atomic clocks. There are times when the clock stops because the earth is slowing down.

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