HBO’s The Gilded Age is the rare soap opera that doubles as a history lesson. Already this season, we’ve learned about Booker T. Washington (Michael Braugher) and the early days of his ...

Though there were water clocks (invented by the Greeks in 250 BC), striking clocks were invented by the Buddhist monk Yi Xing (in the 6th century). Though there were water clocks (invented by the ...

Before smartphones and snooze buttons, people paid someone to bang on their windows with sticks. Meet the knocker-upper—the human alarm clock of industrial Britain.

One of them, Plato, invented the thing that torments you. Learn the story of the earliest alarm clocks. Despite their love of logical rigor, people weren’t always exact in the ancient world.

1340 B.C.-The desk clerk of the Luxor Suites Hotel fails to waken Alexandrian grain merchant Memhotep, who is consequently tardy for his important meeting with Rekmos, grand vizier to Pharaoh ...

Without gadgets like the alarm clock to make sure we get us up in the ... While you likely know that the Wright brothers invented the airplane and that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb ...

It is widely thought that the clockmaker Levi Hutchins from Concord, New Hampshire, invented one of the first alarm clocks in 1787. His design would only go off once at 4am, his preferred time to ...

The clock causes a stir every year when the new time is unveiled, but the group of scientists who invented the doomsday clock have been around for a long time. Update: The Doomsday Clock time was ...

The earliest way of telling the time was by looking at the progress of the shadow cast by a twig stuck upright in the ground. Who invented the clock? The earliest way of telling the time was by ...

It was in the year 1787 that a local man named Levi Hutchins invented the very first alarm clock in America, right here in Concord. Levi Hutchins was born on August 17, 1761, in Harvard ...