A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it...

the pendulum and also to a slight degree on the amplitude, the width of the pendulum's swing. Pendulums were widely used in early mechanical clocks for...

(disambiguation) A torsion pendulum clock, more commonly known as an anniversary clock or 400-day clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism...

clock (also a longcase clock, tall-case clock, grandfather's clock, hall clock or floor clock) is a tall, freestanding, weight-driven pendulum clock,...

A flying pendulum clock is a clock that uses a flying pendulum escapement mechanism. A small metal ball, connected by string, wraps around one brass post...

"regulator" clocks gradually replaced the anchor escapement: 181, 441  and is now used in most modern pendulum clocks. The observation that pendulum clocks slowed...

the invention of the pendulum clock by Christiaan Huygens. A major stimulus to improving the accuracy and reliability of clocks was the importance of...

The Shortt–Synchronome free pendulum clock is a complex precision electromechanical pendulum clock invented in 1921 by British railway engineer William...

hands. The impulse action transfers energy to the clock's timekeeping element (usually a pendulum or balance wheel) to replace the energy lost to friction...

such as the swing of pendulums, which had the potential to be more accurate. Oscillating timekeepers keep time for all modern clocks. The verge escapement...

escapement used in pendulum clocks. The escapement is a mechanism in a mechanical clock that maintains the swing of the pendulum by giving it a small...

of liquid in water clocks, to mechanical clocks, and eventually repetitive, oscillatory processes, such as the swing of pendulums. Oscillating timekeepers...

and inventor, he improved the design of telescopes and invented the pendulum clock, the most accurate timekeeper for almost 300 years. A talented mathematician...

gridiron pendulum was a temperature-compensated clock pendulum invented by British clockmaker John Harrison around 1726. It was used in precision clocks. In...

aeronaut, writer, and one of the most celebrated makers of conical pendulum clocks. In 1853, he established the Manufacture d'horlogerie E. Farcot with...

the brand name of a mechanical torsion pendulum clock manufactured by Jaeger-LeCoultre in Switzerland. The clock gets the energy it needs to run from temperature...

A Kater's pendulum is a reversible free swinging pendulum invented by British physicist and army captain Henry Kater in 1817 (made public on 29 January...

precision master pendulum clock began to be used in institutions like factories, offices, and schools around 1900. Modern radio clocks are synchronised...

mechanism of turret clocks must be more powerful than that of ordinary clocks. Traditional turret clocks are large pendulum clocks run by hanging weights...

turbines to generate electricity. An old and simple application is the pendulum clock driven by a weight, which at 1 kg and 1 m travel can store nearly 10...

timekeeping element in a few mechanical clocks and other clockwork timing devices. During the 1800s, conical pendulums were used as the timekeeping element...

gravity. Pendulum may also refer to: Pendulum (mechanics), the physical and mathematical principles of a pendulum Pendulum clock, a kind of clock that uses...

Osnabrück. craft clock with a centrifugal pendulum (1578 to 1587). Heinrich Gebhardt (1602–1661), German clockmaker, Straßburg, astronomical clock. Wolfgang...

Horologium (Latin hōrologium, the pendulum clock, from Greek ὡρολόγιον, lit. 'an instrument for telling the hour') is a constellation of six stars faintly...

Johannes Hevelius, claimed to be one of the pioneers of the pendulum clock. Alluding to this, the clock began measuring time on his 400th birthday. On 5 October...

were pendulum clocks, but both the rolling of a ship at sea and the up to 0.2% variations in the gravity of Earth made a simple gravity-based pendulum useless...

from rest in one second; a pendulum of length about one meter has a swing of one second, so pendulum clocks have pendulums about a meter long; the fastest...

lastingly significant inventions were electrical looms, traffic signals, pendulum clocks, and the Hipp chronoscope. The son of Grain Miller at a monastery,...

silencing the clock from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. New Year's Eve 1962: The clock slowed due to heavy snow and ice on the hands, causing the pendulum to detach...

atomic clocks, many clock networks were installed using a highly accurate pendulum clock as a master clock. This clock resembled a longcase clock, but had...