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, [...]
Collectible Clocks
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 [...]
Collectible Newspapers
History of Newspapers
The first forerunners of newspapers were produced in Renaissance Europe with privately circulated newsletters that passed along information to merchants concerning politics, economics, and ‘human interest’ features. In the late 1400s Germany produced the first printed news pamphlets or broadsides, usually with highly sensationalised content. The first successfully published news pamphlets in the [...]