Charlottenburg Europacenter Uhr der fließenden Zeit-002

The Clock of Flowing Time (german: Uhr der fließenden Zeit) is a 13 meter high

water clock A water clock or clepsydra (; ; ) is a timepiece by which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel, and where the amount is then measured. Water clocks are one of the oldest time-m ...

extending over three floors in the Berlin Europa-Center. The clock was designed by the French artist

Bernard Gitton Bernard Gitton (); born 24 June 1935) is a French physicist and artist who has built modern water clocks, fountains and other devices relating art and science. Biography He constructed " The Water Clock", at The Children's Museum of Indianapoli ...

and set up in 1982. The water clock displays the time by filling glass spheres with brightly colored liquid, in a cycle that repeats every 12 hours. The whole system is controlled by a

pendulum A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. When a pendulum is displaced sideways from its resting, equilibrium position, it is subject to a restoring force due to gravity that will accelerate it back toward the ...

swinging in the lower half of the clock.

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Official web page
(archived in January 2019)
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