The Water Cup Clock

  This is my 3rd Action Project in Light and Sound and I am creating a new version of a water clock. I researched on what the water clock was and got inspired to build my new design. During the 3rd unit I mainly learned about understanding how clocks work and how they have improved over the years. I created a clock to understand in depth of how clocks work. I sketched out how I would make my clock and asked April Leffridge what she thought about the idea and she was excited to see me put my ideas to work. I am very proud of the idea I created. 



     April is an average clock user and only knew about a few other clocks. Such as the hour glass, the pendulum clock and the everyday digital and analog clocks. When I began to tell her about the water clock she was amazed and didn't really know that they were used 100's of years ago. I then told her how my water cup clock functions below. 

  
  My device will look like a cup with two thick layers, and filled with water. It will be almost quiet, it will be the average cup size, and have no smell to it.
The units will be measured in hours. I chose this specific unit of time because it's the most common and easy to use. My device employs sound to tell time, by making a filling sound indicating that the 12:00 a.m. has started again. This new water clock device can be seen. It has no specific smell because it’s water, of course you can’t taste it, but obviously you can only see it. It’s not going be as large as the old water clocks back in the day but the size will be as big as a normal sized cup.
It's meaningful because without one of my many designs of telling time we will be lost without it. My design is significant because one of the most unique ways of telling time.
I applied core math and science to my time telling device by calculating how much water and or how dense the water will have to be drained out into the second layer of the cup over every 24 hours.
Within the design of this water clock cup I will need to find the circumference of how large the bottom and the top of my cup will have to be to fit a good amount of water into it.
The history of the water clock dates back to 600 B.C. The water clock was only used from 600 BC to 1500 AD The relationship between my clock and the originals are that they both tell time with water and large hour measurements.

"Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

The quote above is stating that if anything was much simpler it wouldn't be good. A prime example could be if you learned everything in school the most simplest way, by the time you experience real world experiences you wouldn't be able to handle it. Because when you're done with school your boss won't grade you and let you re-do what you did wrong. That's not how things work in life. In reality things need to be complex and make you think, everything cant be "simpler".


The short video below will show The Water Cup Clock