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:youtube: **The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**

"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"

length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=QQ2HjdkHVZ

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