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Think for a minute
Have you ever asked yourself how people measure time when there was no clock or wrist watch. There was no mechanical or digital technology advancement thousands of years ago but people use their imagination to measure time. They invented a time telling device that counts the hours and minutes of a day by using the shadow of the sun. As Albert Einstein said once, "imagination is powerful than knowledge”.
If you stand beside a sundial, you will feel like standing thousands of years back in history.It is spectacular to watch on a sundial and investigate it`s power of measuring hours and minutes of a day. But,the problem is where you will find a sundial. May be you can make one of your own. Sounds difficult! Absolutely not. If you follow the instruction given below, it will not take more time for you to make a sundial yourself.
Making a sundial could be a great fun as it does not require any technical knowledge at all.All you need to do is manage some materials and follow the steps describes here. You can do it yourself or with your children or with the kids if you are a school teacher in profession.
Before you begin
You need to accumulate some materials before start doing what I am suggesting here to do. Don`t worry, all these materials does not cost you much money or if you are lucky; you may already posses these materials right in your home.First of all, you need to manage a cardboard to make the dial where you will curve or draw the hour lines. A sharpe anti-cutter and a marker pen is needed. You also need glue,scissors and a computer with printer to begin the process.
Instructions
Step 1: Find out the latitude of your location on earth. Sounds difficult? Just go to this website and zoom the google map until you find your location and get the latitude reading. You need this information to calibrate your sundial to the due north.
Step 2: Cut the card-board in more or like rectangular shape. You can cut big rectangle but remember not to make it too big or small. Because you are going to draw the hour lines on it.
Step 3: Brows the BBC Norfolk Kids website to ge the illustration of the sundial base. Just print the drawing for further use. Also, print the gnomon illustration from that website.
Step 4: Put the printed paper on the cardboard you have just shaped by cutting. Draw the hour marks on the rectangular cardboard with your marker pen. Cut the gnomon by putting the printed illustration on a hard drawing paper.
Step 5. Cut the card-board on the specific space as stated on the printed illustration. Put the gnomon through the hole and for firmness you can use glue. You can just paste the paper you have just printed on the cardboard and skip the step 4.
Now you are ready to go outside to place the sundial towards true north. Enjoy the sundial that you make your own.
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Hi, everyone. Welcome to the sundial blog. Although, I know about clock!, I didnot aware of an important invention of mankind: sundial. So, I decide to create this blog to distribute knowledge about sundial to the internet users all accross the world.
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