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Historical records reveal that approximately ago great civilisations in the Middle East and North Africa began to make clocks to their calendars. These cultures found that they needed to organise their time more efficiently. Originally and sticks of incense that at approximately predictable speeds were used to estimate . Other methods were . The development of in the twentieth century led to clocks with at all. Now mechanical clocks have since come to be largely powered by , removing the need for .