Hydrochronometer

A Hydrochronometer is a Water clock.

In 1867 Fr. Giovan Battista Embriaco created a Hydrochronometer, and sent it to the Paris Universal Expo of 1867, where it received many prizes. The Hydrochronometer has the shape of a wooden pinnacle made of cast iron fused as tree trunks, while its four dials are visible from every direction.

In 1873 the Water clock was in Rome and was placed in Villa Borghese into a fountain realized by the architect Gioacchino Ersoch.

External links

* http://www.orologiodelpincio.it/en/home.htm