In the garden of Tudor Place, the house museum in Georgetown, an 18th Century sundial is framed by a saying that begins: “With warning hand I mark time’s rapid flight.” Except, it doesn’t.

Staten Island Advance/Hilton FloresGeorge Way's newly acquired, 17th-century brass English sundial depicts a skull and scythe and is engraved with the legend: "Life's but a shade." A few weeks ago ...

In October, employees with the Chester County Department of Facilities and Parks noticed the small, metal triangle that helped mark time on the brass sundial that sits at the south end of the ...

Sundials are not just garden ornaments. They can tell time if set up properly. They have been made for centuries and collectors search for the flat type called “equatorial” or “equinoctial ...

Usually, 17th- and 18th-century signed brass sundials are best. A small hand-held sundial made in the mid-18th century by Andreas Volger of Augsburg, Germany, was auctioned in 2010 by Skinner’s ...

The sundial is a very-old tool used to tell time. It is said that the earliest sundials were made in 1500 B.C., and variations were made by the Greeks, Chinese and Romans. Pocket sundials were very… ...

The Marvin Black memorial sundial, erected a couple of decades ago to honor the city's... Time to rescue sundial that's in a fix Seattle Post-Intelligencer Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

If sundials revolutionized time measurement in the 1400s BC, quartz brought timekeeping into the 20th century and silicon brought it into the 21st century. The Role Of Precision Time Measurement.

Brass. Skip to image . IMAGE. OPEN ACCESS. Sundial and compass with perpetual calendar ... Sundial and compass with perpetual calendar and lunar circles. Brass ... By Christopher Kohler, Dresden, ...

They built a human sundial at WSU's 78th Street Heritage Farm in Vancouver, Washington, where a person acts as the gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts the shadow that measures true local time.