Clock Lord

With all the digital clocks these days, some people believe that analog clocks are no longer necessary.  While it’s true that reading a digital clock takes a few less milliseconds for the brain to process, the classic analog wall clock will never go out of style.  For centuries analog wall clocks have been a staple of the American household.  Who can forget the Kit-Kat Clock from the 1950s, the classic firehouse clock, or the old fashioned wrought iron clocks on the urban streets.  These clocks were all analog, and are irrevocably tied to American culture. 

Next time you’re thinking about getting a digital clock, remember that analog wall clocks are the classic models.  They’re great for hallways, kitchens, and over mantles; no home is complete without one of these traditional timepieces!

In modern society the easiest way to tell time is to look at your watch, phone or car clock. But it wasn’t always that easy. Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians used sundials to tell time since 1500 BC. Humans may have been telling time even earlier in history by studying shadow lengths. Sundials may have also existed in China in ancient times.

Sundials were introduced into Greece around 560 BC. The Historian Herodotus, recorded that sundials allowed the Greeks to study the science of geometry, mathematics and astronomy. Later, the Romans adopted the sundial from the Greeks.

A modern-day analog clock is the closest cousin to the sundial. Analog clocks indicate time from angles, using a circular scale of 12 hours, 60 minutes and 60 seconds.

Because sundials are associated with passing time, it has become popular in today’s society to inscribe mottos which reflecting the instability of the world and the inevitability of death into sundials. A popular inscription is, “do not kill time, for it will surely kill thee.”