Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Gizmodo: You Can Thank Galileo For This Marvelous Modern Clock

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You Can Thank Galileo For This Marvelous Modern Clock
Jan 30th 2013, 14:51

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 years later, Christian Kim has reinterpreted the classic ticker with the modern Pendulum clock for Zwilling. More »


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