The Parabolic Clepsydra Clock
- KEY HIGHLIGHTS
- Robotics
- computing mechanisms
- Automation & Programming
- Telecommunication
- CRYPTOGRAPHY
- astronomy
- AUTOMOTION & AUTOMATIC NAVIGATION
- Steam mobility
- Jet Propulsion
- RELIGIOUS TECHNOLOGY
- “PNEUMATIC” AUTOMATA
- MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
- TOOLS & MACHINES
- GEODESY & CARTOGRAPHY
- Gadgets
- HOISTING MACHINES
- MILITARY TECHNOLOGY
- ATHLETIC TECHNOLOGY
- Strategy & showing games
- MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
- HYDRAULIC TECHNOLOGY
- NAVAL TECHNOLOGY
- TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
- ancient theatre technology
- AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY
- The Measurements of Man
- PULLING MACHINES
- KINEMATIC MECHANISMS
- WIND & HYDRAULIC ENERGY
- MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY
- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
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It was a clepsydra formed by vertical walls and suitable engraved hour graduations of parabolic type in order to measure equal time intervals (hours) (as compensation to the variable hydrostatic pressure at the outflow hole of its bottom).