The mechanical clock is an invention we all use today. According to historical research, the world's first clock was invented by Yi Xing, a Buddhist monk and mathematician of the Tang Dynasty (618 ...

To the ancient ... to the Chinese civilisation itself being destroyed by the high explosives of modern warfare. Similarly, the supreme achievement of the ingenuity of the craftsmen in the medieval ...

These modern electronic alarms are just the latest in a long sequence of methods used to wake us from sleep: from the watchmen on ancient ... amazing inventions — mechanical clocks, originally ...

In modern times, clocks underpin everything people do, from work to school to sleep. Timekeeping is also the invisible structure that makes modern infrastructure work. It forms the foundation of ...

The academician said that Al-Jazari wrote a book about his inventions ... in his ancient book including mechanical controls, water-raising systems, water-supplying mechanisms, clocks and ...

An associate professor has been suspended by his university in southwestern China for causing “vicious social impact” by belittling the four great ancient Chinese inventions of papermaking ...

Video by Dhany Osman, Reporting by Vernon Lee A humanoid robot that can pour wine, an alarm clock using ... a former mechanical engineer who is a renowned expert in the field of ancient Greek science ...