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Mechanical Clocks
What makes the mechanical clock tick?
The Triumph of the Clock
How accurate timekeepers came to save thousands of lives at sea
Living by Clock Time
Our perception of time varies depending on our state of mind
The World's Standard of Time
Dividing our time into minutes and hours dates back to the Mesopotamian era
Calendars
Things would be chaos without some way to measure time
Time Travel
Is time travel theoretically and practically possible?
Eternity
Does eternity exist, or is there an end to time?
Timing Systems in Sport
Sporting events are timed to hundredths of a second