Tidal Memory

At the Exploratorium (https://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/tidal-memory)

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“Using live data from the NOAA tide station near the Golden Gate Bridge, the twenty-four soaring columns in this exhibit display San Francisco Bay tide heights for the current day. As each hour ends, another column is locked off, preserving the tide height for that particular hour.”

Portage Sundial, Pembroke, Ontario

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https://www.traversing.ca/blog/2015/7/9/the-portage-sundial

Spherical Astrolabe, 1480

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillary_sphere#/media/File:Spherical_astrolabe_2.jpg

https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/astrolabe/catalogue/browseReport/Astrolabe_ID=163.html

Signed and dated; by Mūsa in 1480. It’s suspected to be from Syria

Currently in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

Tree rings

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