why do clocks turn "clockwise?"?

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Answer 1

Earth rotates around the sun in an anticlock wise direction
(counterclockwise)

so the shadow of an object on earth would move in a clockwise direction.

The first clock made was a bar that is put in the center of a circle and this circle had signes all around to show the time. SO as the earth rotates anticlockwise around the sun the shadow of the bar rotates over the circle in a clockwise direction pointing to the time signs on the circle.

i saw that watch in Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria Egypt.

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Answer 2

Why Do Clocks Turn Clockwise

Answer 3

Clocks made for check the time. It starts from 1 and ends at 12, 24. Right to left or start to end is called clockwise.

Answer 4

It's because people needed a way to say the movement of the clock,and after that using the word "clockwise" to refer to anything else that moves clockwise.

The clock came 1st,then the word clockwise followed suit.

Answer 5

They don't all turn "clockwise". In Australia some people have clocks that have the numbers going the opposite way round the face and the hands also go "anticlockwise" (counterclockwise I think you say in America).

Answer 6

Because when a clock goes clockwise it means time is advancing and going forward.

Answer 7

to always go the right way, cause the sceintist brad migillin made clocks(not), so they always turn clockwise, either than or some egyptian god has the power of the sun, since a sun move to the right, and the eath doesnt

Answer 8

They mimic the shadow cast when the original clocks were sundials, and thus go in that direction

Answer 9

Because when they were invented they needed to call them something....they realised that they turned in a "clockwise" direction sp they called them clocks. that's why.....

Answer 10

Well, the clock came first, that's why it IS "clockwise"...it just is!