Julien Coyne invented a digital sundial. Sundials usually cast a line or triangle to indicate the hour. This one is designed so that when light passes through, it displays the shapes of numbers.

Sundial parts lie everywhere, along with an accumulation of clocks he has bought ... from the Kingston College of Art in 1972, he taught design, clockmaking and metalwork at Eton College.

Nevertheless, these inventions directly set the stage for modern clock design, which was inspired by age-old sundials. Notably, these developments occurred in the Northern Hemisphere, where ...

The earliest mechanical clocks, driven by weights and regulated by escapements, featured hands that moved from left to right, just as sundial shadows did. This design choice was not arbitrary but ...