Hydrochronometer
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Hydrochronometer
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A hydrochronometer is a kind of water clock. In 1867 Fr. Giovan Battista Embriaco, O.P., inventor and professor of the College of St. Thomas in Rome, created a hydrochronometer and sent it to the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867, where it received many prizes. It had the shape of a wooden pinnacle made of cast iron fused as a tree trunk, while its four dials were visible from all directions. In 1873, the water clock was returned to Rome and placed in Villa Borghese gardens into a fountain real
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrochronometer
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2023-09-06T22:34:39Z
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