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  2. Stopwatch - Wikipedia

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    A stopwatch is a timepiece designed to measure the amount of time that elapses between its activation and deactivation. A large digital version of a stopwatch designed for viewing at a distance, as in a sports stadium, is called a stop clock. In manual timing, the clock is started and stopped by a person pressing a button.

  3. Gallet & Company - Wikipedia

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    Gallet & Company. Gallet (ˈgæl.eɪ) is a historic Swiss manufacturer of high-end timepieces for professional, military, sports, racing, and aviation use. Gallet is the world's oldest clock making house with history dating back to Humbertus Gallet, a clock maker who became a citizen of Geneva in 1466. It is one of the oldest continuously ...

  4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The Shortt–Synchronome clock, an electrical driven pendulum clock designed in 1921, was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself. [167] A succession of innovations and discoveries led to the invention of the modern quartz timer. The vacuum tube oscillator was invented in 1912. [168]

  5. Bernard's Watch - Wikipedia

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    14 November 1997. ( 1997-11-14) –. 31 March 2005. ( 2005-03-31) Bernard's Watch (informally known as Bernard in the reboot series) is a British children's drama series about a young boy who could stop time with a magical pocket watch. The show was created by Andrew Norriss and was produced for seven series that aired on CITV from 14 November ...

  6. Pomodoro Technique - Wikipedia

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    Pomodoro Technique. A pomodoro kitchen timer. The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. [1] It uses a kitchen timer to break work into intervals, typically 25 minutes in length, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for tomato, after the ...

  7. A Kind of a Stopwatch - Wikipedia

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    A Kind of a Stopwatch. " A Kind of a Stopwatch " [1] is a 1963 episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, a man acquires a stopwatch which can stop time.

  8. Casio F-91W - Wikipedia

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    Digital. Introduced. June 1989 [1] The Casio F-91W is a digital watch manufactured by Japanese electronics company Casio. Introduced in June 1989 [1] as a successor of the F-87W, [2] it is popular for its low price and long battery life. [3] As of 2011, annual production of the watch is 3 million units, which makes it the most sold watch in the ...

  9. Clockstoppers - Wikipedia

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    Clockstoppers. Clockstoppers is a 2002 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Jonathan Frakes and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Julia Pistor. The film centers on future tech "Hypertime" devices which speed up the users' molecules, creating the illusion that time has stopped from the perspective of the users.