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Julien Coyne invented a digital sundial. Sundials usually cast a line or triangle to indicate the hour. This one is designed so that when light passes through, it displays the shapes of numbers.

So why do shadows matter? Well, before clocks were invented, the ancient Egyptians used sundials to tell the time with shadows – three and a half thousand years ago! We may have technology to ...

He knew that the sun threw no shadow at the summer solstice at Syene (the modern Assuan) and at the same hour at Alexandria the pointers of the sundials threw shadows, because Alexandria is north ...

New York Hall of Science, 2002. For information on making other sundials, see Liftoff to Space Exploration: A Space Sciences Project. Is the tropical humidity giving you another "bad hair day"?

Exhibits include sundials and shelf clocks, chronometers and character watches, and everything in between. Discover one the largest collections of American-made timepieces in the world.

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Shapes are no longer limited to flat planchets. Some are three-dimensional, such as spheres and sundials, or have other ...

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