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Aug 29, 2009
Mechanical clocks
Mechanical clocks Mechanical watches are the next step in the evolution of watches. As promised in the previous article, I? Ll try to keep it as simple and enjoyable as possible. To do this, I quit my beating jaws and start writing ... go.People then we were not very happy with the water clock and tried to invent something more specific than that. They twisted and tued their minds and their destiny by any mechanical watch. The idea behind the mechanical clock is now the measure of length equal to round.Around years 1300, large mechanical clocks began to appear on public buildings in Italy. The clock has been run by the gravitational pull of a weight that has transformed a series of gears and wheels. All this suggested a mechanism that hour.Around 1400, clock towers were built throughout Europe. A famous mechanical clock is in the town hall of Prague, Czech Republic It is composed of three parts? the procession of the Apostles, the astronomical clock and the calendar. The main attraction is the procession hours 12 Apostles.Please me a favor and check the Inteet for the Czech Republic, Prague's astronomical clock "- is impressive.Around 1500, a German who invented a clock, which replaced the engine weight mechanical clock with a motor spring. A spring inside the watch to relax and spend time wheels and gears. Even if they are not very accurate - as the sources are not relaxing at constant speed? were the first small clock, and then people began to make clocks to be placed on shelves and tables and also have begun to watches.Galileo Galilei is credited inventing the concept of clock-pendulum. He studied the movement of the pendulum and found that the time it takes a pendulum to move from side to side is always the same. He also outlined a model of the pendulum, but in reality has never built before his death in 1642.This honor went to a Dutch researcher? Christiaan Huygens? that was the only one to make the first pendulum clock based on Galileo? s discovery. Later it was discovered by the English, the more the pendulum, the most accurate reading time. The clock pendulum and mechanisms were put in wooden cabinets, so that their movement not to be influenced by these projects. We call this type of clock? clock.The grandfather clock, grandfather was the first watch to have a hand and a minute hand.The End.I hours? ll end my jouey through the history of watches and clocks with quartz clocks.And, after that, I'll write? I don? know yet. I? Ll surprise you with a new topic? course.Disclaimer on time? See Antique Clocks not waste your time with my list of qualifications? to care for them after all. Write me, please, if you really want to know. I created with unique wall clocks? Extraordinary powers? - You will remember to stop to take in life and enjoy the moment because we are not here forever.
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