While traveling to an important feast in ancient China, Chuan and his friend Jing Jing devise a water "alarm" clock to make sure their party reaches the emperor's palace before rival warlords. Includes a brief history of water clocks and instructions for making one.
year: 2006
call number/section: 1000
subjects: time measurements, fiction, clocks and watches, historical fiction, time, measurement, china, history, to 221 b.c, fiction