Mechanical clocks became widespread in the 14th century when they were used in medieval monasteries to keep the regulated schedule of prayers.
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Not all historians agree on the history of the clock.
A clock is a device used to measure keep and indicate time the clock is one of the oldest human inventions meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units.
It comes from the word for bell in latin clocca.
The word clock was first used in the 14th century about 700 years ago.
It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length and resists swinging at other rates from its invention in 1656 by christiaan huygens inspired by galileo galilei until the 1930s the.
The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator.
When we look across the last 500 years we can see that development of clocks went through several distinct phases of life.
Some predecessors to the modern clock may be considered as clocks that are based on.
A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum a swinging weight as its timekeeping element.
The history of clocks is very long and there have been many different types of clocks over the centuries.
Our modern day system of using a base 60 time system that is a 60 minute and 60 second increment clock dates back to 2 000 b c.
The day the lunar month and the year devices operating on several physical processes have been used over the millennia.