stopwatch

The utilization of stopwatch  to time Olympic occasions started at the primary Modern Games in 1896 and finished during the 1960s with the happening to electronic timekeeping. Contact cushions were speedier than clocks' thumbs and electric eyes turned out to be more solid than natural eyes. Regardless of whether it's for attempting to get a free pizza from Domino's or timing laps for your driver at Road America, the powerful mechanical hand clock has demonstrated its value over and over. Indeed, even the respected CBS News telecaster Walter Cronkite wasn't insusceptible to their appeal; that was no unimportant pocket watch he checked toward the finish of every broadcast. It was a stopwatch. The utilization of stopwatches to time Olympic occasions started at the primary Modern Games in 1896 and finished during the 1960s with the happening to electronic timekeeping. Contact cushions were faster than clocks' thumbs and electric eyes turned out to be more dependable t...