"There's almost a sense of competitiveness that underpins this: The earlier you got out of bed, the more God had favored you with physical strengths." Peashootersīut by the 1600s and into the 1700s, self-reliance for waking probably became less crucial with the spread of the first domestic alarm clocks, known as lantern clocks, driven by internal weights that would strike a bell as an alarm.
"Waking up in a scheduled way was seen to be a sign of health and good ethics," Handley said. Research on early modern Britain shows that during this era, the morning hours were seen as a spiritual time, when one's closeness to God could be demonstrated by waking up at a scheduled time to pray. Handley thinks that historically, people may also have been more personally motivated to wake up at a particular hour. Church bells also functioned as a type of early alarm clock, she said. The sounds of roosters crowing and mooing cows waiting to be milked would have interrupted people's slumber. "For a society that was overwhelmingly agriculture before the Industrial Revolution, noises of nature were probably really important things," she said. "It's hard to imagine now a world where your patterns of sleeping and waking up again were directly influenced by the setting and rising of the sun," Handley told Live Science.Īnother simple, but notable fact is that the people of yore had no way of soundproofing their houses against the noises of the outside world, like we do today, Handley added. But it's possible that this orientation also enabled people to wake with the sun's rays. Their reasoning was partly religious, because the east was believed to be the direction from which Jesus would come during his resurrection, she said. In her research on Britain's historical sleeping practices, Sasha Handley, a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, has discovered that people during this Christian era would often orientate their beds toward the east - where the sun rose. In an era before alarms, Jackson says it's probable that this is how people woke up, cued by the accumulated hours of sleep, paired with the rays of the rising sun. This process is also affected by light and dark, meaning that periods of alertness and sleepiness usually correspond with morning light and nighttime darkness, respectively. The convenient 'Panel Lock' function prevents from sampling rate changes during a session or live show.Overlaying this, the circadian rhythm - also controlled by cells in the hypothalamus - is a parallel process that regulates phases of sleepiness and alertness over the course of a day. The new LiveClock is easy to configure via the sleek touch buttons. The LiveClock utilizes the same clocking technology, therefore sounds as amazing as the legendary Trinity and Antelope's latest OCX HD master clock. The competitive price and elegantly small footprint make LiveClock the perfect choice for any location recordists, home studio producers or traveling artists, dedicated to achieving the optimum sound quality everywhere they go. Taking up just 1U space and with additional rack ears, it's a breeze to set it in the rig. Fitting perfectly into a FOH console dog house, the pocket size clock carries the signature Antelope sound packed in a robust aluminum case with a lockable touch screen. The Antelope Audio LiveClock is unique in terms of size, sound quality and price audio master clock, designed to perfectly suit any live sound set up. A distinctive stereo image, precise detail and authentic sonic representation are among the main benefits usually associated with Antelope's clocking.
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