Who was the first person to invent the clock?
There are various opinions about the first civilization to have measured time. Some say the Hindus, some Greeks, some Egyptians, etc. It is known that more than 7000yrs ago, the Hindus (Aryan Civilization) used to gaze at the sky and measure the time by looking at the position of stars, Sun, etc. This let them understand time and they used it for various activities like religion, astronomy, astrology, etc. In fact Vedic Astrology is solely dependent on time of birth, which was calculated without any mechanical devices. The Egyptians were known to have used the water clock. This device could measure a certain amount of time dependent upon the amount of water. They were also the first people to have made a calendar consisting of 365 days. The Persians and Sumerians made the hourglass, where time was measured by the amount of sand transferred from one chamber of the device to the other. In spite of the name, it in not necessary that the device measured a time of an hour. There were also h
