Josh Clark
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And then someone else who put water clocks to great use was just this amazing inventor and engineer.
And his whole thing was not just accurate clock timekeeping.
But just essentially delightful little add-ons that did some cool stuff.
He created what's called the Castle Clock.
But for my money, look up the Elephant Clock.
There's a life-size replica of it at a museum, I think, in Saudi Arabia somewhere.
And you can see, you know, how it works and what it does.
But essentially, water just moves from part to part.
There's a scribe in the middle riding on the elephant.
There's another person on the front of the elephant driving it.
There's another guy way up that plays cymbals and stuff.
It's just amazing, especially when you learn about how every single step works.