Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The pendulum clock : the beat of nature -- Successors : ubiquitous timekeeping -- ...
Galileo was the first to think to use a pendulum as a time keeper in 1637. An actual clock using the precise weighted mechanism was patented in 1656 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. Roughly 350 ...
Pendulum clocks, a big advance over the hourglasses and sundials humans once peered at, remained the most precise timekeeping technology until the early 1900s. Based on Galileo’s discovery that ...