Clock Quiz: Bells, Pendulums and Railway Time
Try 6 questions on timekeeping, from candles and pendulums to Prague’s famous clock and Big Ben.
- Questions
6 - Length
About 4 min
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- What stores the energy in a mechanical watch?
- Which city's famous clock is this?
- Which early timekeepers could measure an hour indoors without a view of the sky?
- Put these timekeepers in order of invention, earliest first.
- Huygens made a clock that drifted by less than a minute a day. What kept it ticking at a steady rate?
- Strictly speaking, what is Big Ben?