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What Time is It?
Pedestal clocks from Germany had been around since the 16th century. It wasn’t until the long pendulum clock was introduced in the 1700s that some accuracy was brought to clocks. These clocks became known as "tall case" clocks. Up until this time, residents in a town or city relied on the clock hanging in town, typically at the church steeple. The old-fashioned way of determining time via sundials, hourglass, or simply
viewing the duration of the sun (longer in summer, shorter in winter) was to be
replaced by the ever improving clock.
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The convenience of
having access to accurate time is completely taken for granted in the 21st
century. For those living during the Colonial period, clocks were rare and
typically unreliable. The problem was that the mechanism that regulated the
clock’s time was inaccurate. The time could be off as much as twenty minutes a
day.