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Waking Up To History: Did You Know The First Alarm Clock Could Only Ring At 4 AM?
The invention of the alarm clock revolutionized the way people managed time. Today, we take for granted the convenience of ...
Scientific American6d
The Great Clock of Beauvais Cathedral and the Strasbourg Clock
where grains of sand or drops of water falling from one vessel into another indicated its passage He has invented the sun dial What has he not imagined, from the time when, having discovered the ...
Southeast Missourian13d
Natural gas conversion makes history
Cape Girardeau made history on Sept. 18, 1949, with a groundbreaking one-day conversion of 1,875 gas customers from ...
Business Insider13d
The 5 best sunrise alarm clocks for a gentler wake-up in 2024
Learn more A blaring alarm clock in the morning can be a jarring ... It was fun to carry around when I needed a glass of water in the dark. It's made with polycarbonate to resist bumps and endure ...
WBEZ13d
Off the beaten path: The Super Museum
In 1972, the state legislature declared Metropolis his hometown, and the residents there have embraced the Man of Steel by painting Superman on their water tower, building a 15-foot statue of him ...
The Spokesman-Review8d
50 years ago in Expo history: Banner on Clocktower counts down days till World’s Fair end
The Great Northern Clocktower was once again “in use as a citywide bulletin board.” A banner showed the number of days left until Expo ’74 was set to close. Spokane residents were accustomed ...
USA Today10d
When is daylight saving time ending this year, and when do our clocks 'fall back?'
The twice-annual changing of the clocks will happen on Sunday, Nov. 3 as the clocks "fall back" an hour, a tradition that is observed by most, but not all Americans. The opposite will happen in ...
PBS22d
Exhausted first responders work around the clock in North Carolina’s mountains days after Helene’s deluge
Many who lived through what was one of the deadliest storms in U.S. history were left without electricity ... Exhausted emergency crews worked around the clock to clear roads, restore power ...
Evanston YWCA closes to the public after cases of Legionnaires' disease connected to water system
In a letter to Mayor Brandon Johnson Friday, U.S. Reps. Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Sean Casten and Brad Schneider added federal ...
AZ Central8d
When does the time change? Here's when daylight savings time 2024 ends
People across the U.S. — even in states like Arizona, most of which does not observe daylight saving time — start wondering when clocks will fall back, adding an extra hour of daylight for the ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution22d
Chlorine product maker BioLab has history of fires and chemical leaks
“Our top priority is ensuring the community’s safety, and our teams are working around-the-clock to respond to the ... said at the time it was caused by water exposure inside the facility.
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When does daylight savings end? Here's when to set your clocks back
That will put us back into standard time and end Daylight Saving Time (DST). When local time reaches 2 a.m., clocks will turn backward one hour to 1 a.m. Many devices like phones and computers ...