Ebony and ivory half-hour glass

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Ebony and ivory half-hour glass
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A typical example of a half-hour glass in an ebony mount with turned columns and ivory feet.

[edit] How it works

The timekeeping depends on the regular flow of sand through a small orifice. The time taken for one bulb of the sand glass to empty is a definite interval, at the end of which the glass can be turned over and the process repeated. Sand glasses are useful for measuring long periods of time, but prove inadequate for short time intervals.

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[edit] In the Science Museum's Records

Inv. No: 1953-302