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2. 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]

3. 12-hour clock - Wikipedia

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   The 12-hour clock has been developed since the second millennium BC and reached its modern form in the 16th century. The 12-hour time convention is common in several English-speaking nations and former British colonies, as well as a few other countries. There is no widely accepted convention for how midday and midnight should be represented: in ...

4. Doomsday Clock - Wikipedia

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   thebulletin .org /doomsday-clock /. The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Maintained since 1947, the clock is a metaphor, not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked scientific and technological ...

5. 24-hour clock - Wikipedia

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   The modern 24-hour clock is the convention of timekeeping in which the day runs from midnight to midnight and is divided into 24 hours. This is indicated by the hours (and minutes) passed since midnight, from 00 (:00) to 23 (:59), with 24 (:00) as an option to indicate the end of the day. This system, as opposed to the 12-hour clock, is the ...

6. Striking clock - Wikipedia

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   A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up to twelve times at 12:00 mid-day, then starts again, striking once at 1:00 pm, twice at 2:00 pm, up ...

7. Blood on the Clocktower - Wikipedia

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   Playing time. 30–120 minutes. Age range. 14+. Website. Official website. Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game created by Steven Medway and published by the Pandemonium Institute. [1] The game was released in 2022 after some time in development and a Kickstarter campaign. Blood on the Clocktower shares core mechanics with Mafia.