clepsydra

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Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

While we were thus busy, useful, and happy, the dripping rain, like a clepsydra, told off the morning moments.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various

From the middle of the seventh century a clepsydra of Chinese origin was used to mark the hours.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

When you feed him have a full clepsydra handy and start it when he begins to eat.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas

The clepsydra naturally suggested to the mechanical mind the idea of driving a mechanism for registering time by the force of gravity acting on some body other than water.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Williams, Archibald