A Franklin Lakes resident, Taylor Hallman’s profession involves assisting clients with preparing business continuation plans in case their businesses are closed because of some event. While at home in Franklin Lakes, Taylor Hallman enjoys studying time and how timepieces are made.
Horology, or the study or time and making clocks, has its origins in ancient Sumeria, where it is believed time tracking began, but the first actual record was in ancient Egypt. Today's digitized timepieces that track time to the nanosecond are a major evolution to ancient timepieces that are great records of history but are very antiquated in their function.
Historians mark 1450 BC as the first time that Egyptians used the Earth’s natural circadian rhythms to denote time. The Egyptians used this method to devise a day that would be divided into two 12-hour intervals.
Egyptians contributed significantly to the field of horology. Egyptians invented water clocks used in the Precinct of Amen-Re, which the Ancient Greeks then later adopted. The Egyptians also created the sundial, also known as shadow clocks. These clocks divided time into two ten-hour intervals and two twilight hours.
The entire world, at some point, devised some method for keeping track of time. Ancient civilizations in China, Japan, and England used candle pieces to denote time. India and Tibet used the hourglass and the time stick. Finally, Mayan civilizations used large stone constructions and pyramids to track the equinox and solstice.
