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2. Alarm clock - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 11 October 2024. Type of clock A traditional wind-up (key-wound), mechanical spring-powered alarm clock An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or ...

3. Levi Hutchins - Wikipedia

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   Clockmaker. Known for. Inventing the first Alarm Clock. Levi Hutchins (August 17, 1761 – June 13, 1855) was an American clockmaker, and inventor of the first American alarm clock. Hutchins was born in Harvard, Massachusetts, to Gordon and Holly Hutchins. In April 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, he served as a fifer under his ...

4. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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   The first clock known to strike regularly on the hour, a clock with a verge and foliot mechanism, is recorded in Milan in 1336. [96] By 1341, clocks driven by weights were familiar enough to be able to be adapted for grain mills, [97] and by 1344 the clock in London's Old St Paul's Cathedral had been replaced by one with an escapement. [98]

5. Strawberry Alarm Clock - Wikipedia

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   Strawberry Alarm Clock is a psychedelic rock band formed in 1967 with origins in Glendale, California, [ 1 ] a city about ten miles north of downtown Los Angeles. They are best known for their 1967 hit single " Incense and Peppermints ". [ 2 ] Categorized as acid rock, psychedelic pop [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] and sunshine pop, [ 6 ] they charted five ...

6. Telechron - Wikipedia

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   Telechron electric alarm clock. Telechron alarm clocks are particularly popular with collectors. Until about 1940, the overwhelming majority of Telechron alarm clocks had bell alarms. The entire mechanism was enclosed in a bell housing of steel. Atop the clock's coil was a metal strip that vibrated at 60 cycles per second when the alarm was ...

7. Lighthouse clock - Wikipedia

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   A c. 1825–30 lighthouse timepiece by Simon Willard. A lighthouse clock is a type of mantel clock manufactured in the U.S. from 1818 through 1830s by the American clockmaker Simon Willard, having the dial and works exposed beneath a glass dome on a tapered, cylindrical body. They were also made by Simon Willard & Son, a partnership between the ...