When was the first clock made?

Question

When was the first clock made?

Answer 1

At 11:24 pm.

Answer 2

thats a good question!

Answer 3

When people felt the need for it. (At the beginning of time)

Answer 4

No one knows for sure. Before the advent of the mechanical clock, there were, of course, sundials, but there were also clocks that measured time by burning candles or dripping water. The latter, called "Clepsydra" or water-clock, was fairly widespread, although few examples exist today.

Some scholars believe the first record of a mechanical escapement (the part of the clock that stops and releases the gear movement at regular intervals) is illustrated in an album of sketches from c. 1250, but this was not used in a timepiece as such. Several references to iron clocks appear during the first half of the 14th century. The first detailed description of a mechanical clock movement comes from an Italian, Giovani da Dondi, in 1364. The oldest extant mechanical clock is from 1389 and can be found in Rouen, France.

The most important development in accurate time keeping came in 1657, when a Dutchman named Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum escapement.

Answer 5

The clock is one of the oldest human inventions to enable us to judge how long a process has run. As the seasons and the phases of the moon can be used to measure the passage of longer periods of time, shorter processes had to be used to measure off hours and minutes.

The word 'clock' comes from the French word "cloche" meaning bell. The Latin for bell is glocio, the Saxon is clugga and the German is glocke. The first mechanical alarm clock was invented by Levi Hutchins of Concord, New Hampshire, in 1787. However, historical records reveal that approximately 5000 to 6000 years ago great civilizations in the Middle East and North Africa began to make clocks to enhance their calendars. These cultures found that they needed to organize their time more efficiently.

Originally candles and sticks of incense that burn down at approximate predictable speeds were used as to estimate the passage of time. Other methods were sundials and hourglasses. The development of electronics in the twentieth century led to clocks with no clockwork parts at all. Time in these cases is measured in several ways, such as by the vibration of a tuning fork or the behaviour of quartz crystals. Now mechanical clocks have since come to be largely powered by batteries, removing the need for winding

Answer 6

2000 B.C.

Answer 7

Mechanical clocks, late 1200s