Despite their drawbacks, sundials continued to be used for many years after the invention of mechanical clocks.

尽管日晷存在一定的缺点，但是在机械钟表出现之前，日晷一直是最常用的计时工具。

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By the eighteenth century, people had developed mechanical clocks and watches. And today, many of our clocks and watches are electronic.

直到十八世纪，人们发明了机械钟和表，今天我们很多人使用的是电子表。

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In the early 20th century, Swiss-made clocks and watches, medicine, textiles and mechanical products were already sold in China, and Swiss financial and insurance services also had presence there.

早在上世纪初，瑞士钟表、制药、纺织、机械产品就已经远销中国，瑞士金融保险机构也在华开展业务。

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By the end of the 13th century, Italian engineers were building large mechanical clocks inside towers, driven by slowly descending weights.

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In the Thirteenth Century the first mechanical clocks began to appear across Europe, a Medieval innovation that would revolutionise how humans saw time.

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