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The earliest depiction of a clock powered by a hanging weight is from the Bible of St Louis, an illuminated manuscript made between 1226 and 1234 that shows a clock being slowed by water acting on a wheel. The illustration seems to show that weight-driven clocks were invented in western Europe. [79]
Luman Watson was an early Cincinnati clockmaker.He worked in Cincinnati, Ohio from 1819 to 1834. His clocks had wooden works. He made both tall clocks and shelf clocks. Luman Watson, son and grandson of prosperous farmers, was born at Harwinton, Connecticut, on October 10, 1790.
The longcase clock (also known as the grandfather clock) was created to house the pendulum and works by the English clockmaker William Clement in 1670 or 1671. It was also at this time that clock cases began to be made of wood and clock faces to use enamel as well as hand-painted ceramics. In 1670, William Clement created the anchor escapement ...
Eardley Norton, a most highly esteemed member of the Clockmakers' Company, was working between 1762 and 1794. There are clocks by him in the Royal Collection and many museums worldwide. Norton made an astronomical clock for George III which still stands in Buckingham Palace.
The invention of the escapement was an important step in the history of technology, as it made the all-mechanical clock possible. [1]: p.514-515 [2] [3] The first all-mechanical escapement, the verge escapement, was invented in 13th-century Europe.
Jessop's Clock, San Diego, California, is a pendulum regulated multi-face town clock commissioned in 1905 by Joseph Jessop, a jewellery store owner in San Diego, California. The Ohio Clock is an 1815 clock in the United States Capitol; The Town Clock of Dubuque, Iowa is in a downtown clock tower, built in 1864.
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Early time clock, made by National Time Recorder Co. Ltd. of Blackfriars, London at Wookey Hole Caves museum A Bundy clock used by Birmingham Corporation Transport. An early and influential time clock, sometimes described as the first, was invented on November 20, 1888, by Willard Le Grand Bundy, [4] a jeweler in Auburn, New York.