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  2. Green eyeshade - Wikipedia

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    Green eyeshade. Green eyeshades or dealer's visors are a type of visor that were worn most often from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century by accountants, telegraphers, copy editors, and others engaged in vision-intensive, detail-oriented occupations to lessen eye strain [1] due to early incandescent lights and candles, which tended to ...

  3. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The Shortt–Synchronome clock, an electrical driven pendulum clock designed in 1921, was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself. [167] A succession of innovations and discoveries led to the invention of the modern quartz timer. The vacuum tube oscillator was invented in 1912. [168]

  4. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The first gēng theoretically comes at sundown, but was standardized to fall at yǒu shí central 1 kè, or 19:12. The time between each gēng is 10 of a day, making a gēng 2.4 hours—or 2 hours 24 minutes—long. The 5 gēngs in the night are numbered from one to five: yì gēng ( 一 更) (alternately chū gēng ( 初更) for "initial watch ...

  5. Roman timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Roman timekeeping. In Roman timekeeping, a day was divided into periods according to the available technology. Initially, the day was divided into two parts: the ante meridiem (before noon) and the post meridiem (after noon). With the advent of the sundial circa 263 BC, the period of the natural day from sunrise to sunset was divided into ...

  6. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    Quartz clocks and quartz watches are timepieces that use an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal to keep time. This crystal oscillator creates a signal with very precise frequency, so that quartz clocks and watches are at least an order of magnitude more accurate than mechanical clocks. Generally, some form of digital logic ...

  7. York Time Institute - Wikipedia

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    York Time Institute. The York Time Institute is a school in York, Pennsylvania providing instruction in the conservation, restoration, and repair of traditional and modern time-keeping devices. It was founded in 2008 by Daniel Nied, [1] [2] [3] former Director of the School of Horology of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.

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