the Earth-destroying bomb, but in the Cold War, America was actually working on a top-secret plan called 'Project Sundial' to create a nuclear weapon that could destroy humanity with just one shot.

The inventions of the hemispherium and the hemicyclium are attributed to Berosus (356-323 BCE), a Chaldean priest and astronomer who brought these types of sundials to Greece. Both dials use the shape ...

Julien Coyne invented a digital sundial. Sundials usually cast a line or triangle to indicate the hour. This one is designed so that when light passes through, it displays the shapes of numbers.

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Roger Gilbertson was sitting in his easy chair, watching shadows move across his house when he suddenly became curious about ...

With its original coach offices and warehouse, Liverpool Road Station is the world's oldest surviving railway station.This sundial was made in 1833 for use at Liverpool Road Station in Manchester.

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Tens of thousands of people gathered outside the gates of the Dodger Stadium as security and staff frantically acted to ...

Welcome to the WLRN Sundial Book Club! This group will focus on the stories and the characters that are uniquely South Florida. We want to highlight the authors who used to or still call South ...