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The 16th Century clock tower of Notre-Dame d
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pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its time base. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens
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A Lantern clock is a type of weight-driven wall clock, shaped like a lantern. It was introduced in Britain around 1620.
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n 1629, many decades before clockmaking was established in the Black Forest,[1] an Augsburg nobleman by the name of Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) penned the first known description of a cuckoo clock.[2]
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In the early 1800's Eli Terry (1772-1852) began using water power to drive machinery to make clock parts quicker and cheaper. Known as the 'father' of the clock manufacturing industry
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Grandmother clock - a popular name for a shorter version of the "grandfather" or longcase clock. The name usually refers to a case standing 60' to 70' high, but they aren't limited by size. See: Grandmother Clock
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Prior to the late nineteenth century, time keeping was a purely local phenomenon. Each town would set their clocks to noon when the sun reached its zenith each day.
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Early Wristwatches and Coming of an Age in World War I
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breitling in 1915
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The first mechanical alarm clock was invented by Levi Hutchins, of New Hampshire, in the United States, in 1787.
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