Sundials are at risk of dying out because young people aren’t interested, Cambridge expert suggests
Absolutely shocking revelation here – what happens when all the technology is turned off if we cant tell the time by the sun anymore!??
Dr Frank King estimated sundial experts were now down to their last 100 around the globe.
He said few young people were rigorously tackling the maths required to design the timepieces – with British schools “scraping the surface” when it came to algebra, trigonometry and geometry.
The sundial enthusiast, 76, a former computer science lecturer at Cambridge, is one of the leading experts in the field and designed iconic British timepieces including the 22-metre Noon Mark on the London Stock Exchange, which measures 22-metres long, and the Golden Jubilee sundial outside the House of Lords.