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  2. Time clock - Wikipedia

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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, [2] a jeweler in Auburn, New York.

  3. History of timekeeping devices - Wikipedia

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    The equation of time was engraved on sundials so that clocks could be set using the Sun. In 1720, Joseph Williamson claimed to have invented a clock that showed solar time, fitted with a cam and differential gearing, so that the clock indicated true solar time. [137] [138] [139]

  4. Timeline of time measurement inventions - Wikipedia

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    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. 1737 - John Harrison presents the first stable marine chronometer, thereby allowing for precise longitude determination while at sea. 1850 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison starts in Roxbury, Mass ...

  5. Clock - Wikipedia

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    A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, and the year. Devices operating on several physical processes have been used over the millennia.

  6. Bundy Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    His family later moved to Auburn, New York, where he worked as a jeweler and invented a time clock in 1888. [1] He later obtained patents of many mechanical devices. [3] Harlow E. Bundy was born in 1856 in Auburn, New York. He was a graduate of Hamilton College. He died in 1916 in Pasadena, California, after retiring from business in 1915.

  7. Pendulum clock - Wikipedia

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    Pendulum clock conceived by Galileo Galilei around 1637. The earliest known pendulum clock design, it was never completed. Vienna regulator style pendulum wall clock. A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is an approximate harmonic ...

  8. Incense clock - Wikipedia

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    The incense clock (simplified Chinese: 香钟; traditional Chinese: 香鐘; pinyin: xiāngzhōng; Wade–Giles: hsiang-chung; lit. 'fragrance clock') is a timekeeping device that originated from China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) and spread to neighboring East Asian countries such as Japan and Korea. The clocks' bodies are effectively ...

  9. John Harrison - Wikipedia

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    Horology & carpentry. John Harrison (3 April [O.S. 24 March] 1693 – 24 March 1776) was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea. Harrison's solution revolutionized navigation and greatly increased the safety of long ...

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