How did hourglass happen? How did they even get the right amount/size of each sand particle/other physical aspects to be aligned with the time?

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How did hourglass happen? How did they even get the right amount/size of each sand particle/other physical aspects to be aligned with the time?

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They used ground up eggshells in the really early ones. Hence the german name “Eieruhr”-“Eggclock”.

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