The Pendulum clock

Hello everybody, this is Dalton, your seventh favorite blogger, with yet another history outline. Today's topic: THE PENDULUM CLOCK!

The pendulum clock was extremely useful to tell time during the 1600s because the other time-telling instruments would be inconvenient , clunky, and not accurate enough to use in the first place. The water clock? Ugh. Imagine carrying a dripping bowl of water with you on a journey, having to worry about evaporation, the water falling out, the bowl breaking, or you getting really thirsty.

The other tool is a stone with a chip at the top that lets it work like a clock, when sun falls on it, but it is large, heavy, and has to be perfectly positioned.

So you can see why there was a huge push for the pendulum clock. It was incredibly accurate for the time, easy to carry if you had a small one, and it was also incredibly convenient for the time. Credit for inventing this device goes to Christian Huygens, who invented it in 1656. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, pendulum clocks in homes, factories, offices, and railroad stations served as primary time standards for scheduling daily life, work shifts, and public transportation. Their greater accuracy allowed for the faster pace of life which was necessary for the Industrial Revolution. (Wikipedia) A clock that can be found in Salisbury Cathedral is actually the world's oldest surviving working clock. It is thought to date from 1386, or possibly earlier, and is made of hand-wrought iron. (Which makes me wonder if credit for inventing the clock should actually got to Christian Huygens). To summarize, the Pendulum clock was an extremely important push in mechanical gearworking and innovation.