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But the Chinese were surprised to see the clock, which were brought to China for the first time by European explorers. Europeans were the first to make a mechanical clock similar to the ones we use today. ... In the 1920's the first Quartz were invented. This works by applying a certain voltage and pressure inside the clock.
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wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_clock
wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_invented_the_clock
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The invisible invention of the clock ... In other programs, we talk about what a fool's errand it is to name the first inventor of anything. But since the exception really does prove the rule, let's raise yet another priority question; let's ask when the first mechanical clock was invented.
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www.uh.edu/engines/epi1506.htm
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When was the mechanical clock invented? It's a hard question -- not because people wrote too little about early clocks, but because they wrote the wrong things. The problem is that the mechanical clock seemed at first to be a mere improvement on the older water clock, which had been around for well over a thousand years.
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www.uh.edu/engines/epi72.htm
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The first mechanical alarm clock was invented by Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. However, the ringing bell alarm on his clock could ring only at 4 am. On October 24, 1876 a mechanical wind-up alarm clock that could be set for any time was patented (#183,725) by Seth E Thomas.
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inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/clock.htm
inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/clock.htm
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The clock is one of the oldest human inventions to enable us to judge how long a process has run. As the seasons and the phases of the moon can be used to measure the passage of longer periods of time, shorter processes had to be used to me...
http://www.blurtit.com/q944943.html
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No one know exactly who invented the first mechanical clock, or just where or when, though most experts agree that by 1300, mechanical clocks were ringing out from towers and cathedrals across Europe.
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www.hamstation.com/among_the_first_time.htm
www.hamstation.com/among_the_first_time.htm
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The first mechanical clock was made in 723 A.D. by a monk and mathematician I-Hsing. ... The design for these Chinese clocks was later copied by the Europeans, and they were even originally credited for first inventing them. The clocks made by the Chinese are to me one of the best things that the Chinese invented.
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www.vendian.org/guests/invent/max2.htm
www.vendian.org/guests/invent/max2.htm
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Clocks; The first mechanical clock was invented in the early 1300's. With this invention time began to be measured in hours (24 hours equaling a day). ... Historians are not certain who invented the first spectacles. In the late thirteen century around 1287 paintings first appeared with people wearing or holding...
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www.mce.k12tn.net/renaissance/inventions.htm
www.mce.k12tn.net/renaissance/inventions.htm
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A Macedonian astronomer, Andronikos, supervised the construction of his Horologion, known today as the Tower of the Winds, in the Athens marketplace in the first half of the first century BCE. This octagonal structure showed scholars and shoppers both sundials and mechanical hour indicators. ... The Su Sung clock tower,
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