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Who invented the first water clock?

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Who invented the first water clock?

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The first water clocks were invented by the ancient Egyptians. Based on a water clock found in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, Amenhotep I, who was buried around 1500 B.C., it is presumed that water clocks originated in Egypt around 1400 — 1500 B.C.