Books form a large part of children’s learning. Introducing your child to read books can be done from when they are just infants and they will continue to read children’s books up to around the age of twelve years old.
The concept of printing books for children was brought about during the 17th century. Before this [...]
Children’s Literature
Collectible Clocks
Antique Alarm Clocks
Alarm clocks are ancient devices, their history stretching back to ancient Greece. Plato (428 – 348 BC) was said to own a water clock with an alarm signal similar to the sound of a water organ. Ctesibius (285 – 222BC) fitted elaborate alarm systems to his water clock would sound at pre-set times, [...]
Antique Clocks
History of Clocks
The earliest type of ‘clock’ or timepiece was the sundial. Devised around 3500 BC, it was reasonably accurate although it required sunlight to operate. The sundial uses a centred stick to cast shadows on a circular disk as the Earth turned on its axis.
Other ancient devices used to estimate the passing of time [...]