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  2. Electric clock - Wikipedia

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    Hipp also invented a small motor and built the chronoscope and the registering chronograph for time measurement. The first electric clocks had prominent pendulums because this was a familiar shape and design. Smaller clocks and watches with a spiral-balance are made on the same principles as pendulum clocks.

  3. Telechron - Wikipedia

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    The electric clock market grew rapidly in the 1930s, and Telechron's patented power interruption indicator gave his clocks an advantage over competing synchronous clocks, but by the 1950s battery-operated clocks that weren't dependent on the power grid took market share, and in the 1960s the quartz clock replaced synchronous clocks.

  4. Clock - Wikipedia

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    The electric clock was patented in 1840, and electronic clocks were introduced in the 20th century, becoming widespread with the development of small battery-powered semiconductor devices. The timekeeping element in every modern clock is a harmonic oscillator, a physical object that vibrates or oscillates at a particular frequency. [2]

  5. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The most accurate pendulum clocks were controlled electrically. [166] The Shortt–Synchronome clock , an electrical driven pendulum clock designed in 1921, was the first clock to be a more accurate timekeeper than the Earth itself.

  6. Quartz clock - Wikipedia

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    In nearly all quartz clocks and watches, the frequency is 32 768 Hz, [1] and the crystal is cut in a small tuning fork shape on a particular crystal plane. [2] This frequency is a power of two ( 32 768 = 2 15 ), just high enough to exceed the human hearing range , yet low enough to keep electric energy consumption , cost and size at a modest ...

  7. Pendulum clock - Wikipedia

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    In some pendulum clocks, fine adjustment is done with an auxiliary adjustment, which may be a small weight that is moved up or down the pendulum rod. In some master clocks and tower clocks, adjustment is accomplished by a small tray mounted on the rod where small weights are placed or removed to change the effective length, so the rate can be ...

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