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water clock 水鐘,滴漏。

water closet

The need to gauge the divisions of the day and night led the ancient egyptians , greeks and romans to create sundials , water clocks and other early chronometric tools 古埃及人、希臘人與羅馬人為了測定晝夜之別,發明了日晷、水鐘及其他早期計時工具,后來由西方世界繼承了這些技術。

Its first exhibition , heavenly creations - gems of ancient chinese inventions , includes the world s oldest surviving map on paper and the oldest surviving water clock 在遷址后首個舉辦的“天工開物- -中國古代科技文物展”中,展出世界上最古老而仍然存在的紙地圖和銅壺滴漏。

Time no longer “ flowed , ” as it did literally in a water clock 在以水鐘計時的時代里,時間的確是在流逝。