Hourglass (disambiguation)

An hourglass or hour glass is one of the oldest devices for measuring time; the marine hourglass is one example. The term "hourglass" is also used to describe an elongated, curved, mirror-image shape with a narrow middle; see Glossary of shapes with metaphorical names.

Music

Hourglass drum, or waisted drum
Hour Glass (band), a 1960s rock band, featuring two later members of the Allman Brothers Band, Duane and Gregg Allman

Albums

Hourglass (America album), a 1994 release by America
Hour Glass (Hour Glass album), a 1967 debut album
Hourglass (Kate Rusby album), a 1997 release by Kate Rusby
Hourglass (James Taylor album), a 1997 release by James Taylor
Hourglass, a 2002 album by Athenaeum
Hourglass, a 2003 album by Glass Harp
Hourglass (Fayray album), a 2004 release by Fayray
The Hourglass, a 2007 remix EP by Leæther Strip packaged with the box set of their album The Giant Minutes to the Dawn
Hourglass (Dave Gahan album), a 2007 release by David Gahan
Hourglass: Remixes, a 2008 album by David Gahan
Hourglass: The Anthology, a box set by Lamb of God

Songs

"Hourglass" (Squeeze song), a 1987 song by Squeeze
"Hourglass" (Clannad song), a 1989 song by Clannad
"Hourglass" (Disclosure song), a song by Disclosure from their album Caracal
"Hourglass", a song by P-Model from the 1985 album Karkador
"Hourglass", a song by At The Drive-In from the 1998 album In/Casino/Out
"Hourglass", a song by Liquid Tension Experiment from the 1999 album Liquid Tension Experiment 2
"Hourglass", a song by Live Alien Broadcast from the 1999 album Even Further
"Hourglass", a song by Lamb of God from the 2004 album Ashes of the Wake
"The Hourglass", a song by Savatage from the 1998 album The Wake of Magellan

Other entertainment

Hour Glass (TV series), a 1946–1947 NBC television variety show
Hourglass Studios, a visual effects studio started by Dave McKean
Hourglass, a 1995 film directed by C. Thomas Howell

Books

Hourglass (Kiš novel), a Danilo Kiš
Hourglass (Gray novel), a 2010 novel written by Claudia Gray
"Hourglass", a 2004 episode from season 3 of Alias
The Hourglass, a supervillain character from the 2008 film, Superhero Movie
Hourglass (Smallville)

Space

Engraved Hourglass Nebula, a planetary nebula
Hourglass Nebula, part of the Lagoon Nebula
Hourglass Sea, an early name for Syrtis Major Planum, a feature of Mars

Companies

The Hour Glass, a Singapore-based luxury watch retailer founded by Jannie Chan and her husband Henry Tay

Women's fashion

Hourglass corset, a type of undergarment
Hourglass figure, a description of a female body shape

Zoology

Hourglass dolphin, Lagenorynchus cruciger, a small dolphin found in Antarctic and sub-Antarctic waters
Hourglass toad, or Cross toad, Leptophryne borbonica, a species of toad native to southeast Asia

Other

the translation of שְׁעוֹן הַחוֹל‬ (pronounced Sha'on HaḤol) the project name for the Egypt–Israel barrier
The Hour-Glass, a 1905 painting by Evelyn De Morgan
Hourglass Device, a United States military award, attached to the Armed Forces Reserve Medal
Hourglass Field, an early 20th Century landing field outside San Diego
Hourglass formation, a type of formation in modern Western square dance