With over 600 years of presence in our lives, clocks can be regarded as one of the oldest devices that were created by our ancestors in the birthplace of modern civilization – Babylon. By giving us the means to track time, build schedules and control the flow of our daily routine, clocks managed to forge the look modern civilization that we are living today.
Creation of first modern mechanical clock is attributed to German locksmith Peter Henlein (1510).
First alarm clock based on water was created by famous Greek philosopher and inventor Plato.
If you ever wanted to know more about history of the clock, here is the perfect place to do so. Quickly learn detailed information about their history, timelines, and influence they had on our culture.
Facts surrounding clocks, watches, sundials, inventors and other time measuring devices have gathered in history books over the last several millennia's. Now, you have the opportunity to read everything about those facts here.
If you ever wanted to learn more about famous clock inventors, here is the perfect place to do so. From ancient times to modern age of industry and science, clock innovators managed to change the way we live our daily lives and function in complex modern societies.
Even though sundials received enormous attention by the Greek and Roman scientists, they remained sparsely used in continental Europe after the fall of Roman Empire. There, they were mostly used by government, commerce and churches. This situation changed with the arrival of Renaissance and expansion of science, manufacture, and commerce with distant Middle Eastern and Asian lands. After new knowledge of mechanical clocks from China and Islamic lands came to Europe, art of mechanical clock making slowly started to spread. By late 14th century various clock designs started appearing across England, France, Italy and Germany, finally culminating in the creation of the first so called "pocket watch" by Peter Henlein. His invention sparked the minds of countless innovators, who eventually managed to upgrade portable clock into device that became cheap, durable and precise.
Today, modern watches are made in both analogue mechanical form and in digital form, and can be found almost everywhere you look.