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Samuel Watson (fl. c.1635-c.1710), [1] was a horologist (clock and watch maker) who invented the 5 minute repeater, [2] and made the first stopwatch. [1] He made a clock for King Charles II [ 3 ] and was an associate of Isaac Newton .
The electric clock, invented in 1840, was used to control the most accurate pendulum clocks until the 1940s, ... The concentric minute hand was an earlier invention, ...
The concentric minute hand was added to the clock by Daniel Quare, a London clockmaker and others, and the second hand was first introduced. Hairspring In 1675, Huygens and Robert Hooke invented the spiral balance spring , or the hairspring, designed to control the oscillating speed of the balance wheel .
1656 - Christiaan Huygens builds the first accurate pendulum clock. [6] 1676 - Daniel Quare, a London clock-maker, invents the repeating clock, that chimes the number of hours (or even minutes). [7] 1680 - Second hand introduced
Woodcut of medieval clockmaker, 1568 Lateral view of a Timothy Mason longcase clock movement with striking mechanism, c. 1730. A clockmaker is an artisan who makes and/or repairs clocks. Since almost all clocks are now factory-made, most modern clockmakers only repair clocks.
The increased accuracy resulting from these developments caused the minute hand, previously rare, to be added to clock faces beginning around 1690. [10] [4] The 18th and 19th century wave of horological innovation that followed the invention of the pendulum brought many improvements to pendulum clocks.
The repeating clock was invented by the English cleric and inventor, the Reverend Edward Barlow in 1676. [2]: 206 His innovation was the rack and snail striking mechanism, which could be made to repeat easily and became the standard mechanism used in both clock and watch repeaters ever since.
Jost Bürgi was the first clock maker to include a minute hand on clock for astronomer Tycho Brahe in 1577. [6] The introduction of the minute hand into watches was possible only after the invention of the hairspring by Thomas Tompion, an English watchmaker, in 1675. [7]