Time Immemorial

A tribute to those cars which crashed while their drivers were trying to reach on time. Time time of the crash is shown individually on the respective tyres (LOL). The history of the time telling device can be traced to antiquity. Vitruvius reports that the ancient Egyptians used clepsydras, a time mechanism run by flowing water. Historians disagree over the Antikythera mechanism but this is largely thought to be an early mechanical clock. By the 9th century AD a mechanical timekeeper had been developed that lacked only an escapement mechanism. There is a record that in 1176 Sens Cathedral installed a ‘horologe’—the word still used in French for large clocks. It is derived from the Greek hora meaning ‘hour’ and legein meaning 'to tell'. This word has led scholars to believe that these tower clocks did not employ hands or dials, but “told” the time with audible signals.
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