History of the pendulum clock a pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum a swinging weight as its timekeeping element.
Pendulum wall clock with huygens weight.
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.
For instance a clock with a heavier weight can store more potential energy and can therefore run longer than a lightweight clock before any winding is required.
The english scientist robert hooke studied the conical pendulum around 1666.
The next step was to extend the case to the floor and the grandfather clock was born.
That gives the weight potential energy in the earth s gravitational field.
Clocks weight driven and with short pendulums were encased in wood and made to hang on the wall but these new eight day wall clocks had very heavy weights and many fell off weak plaster walls and were destroyed.
When you wind a weight driven clock you pull on a cord that lifts the weight.
The idea behind the weight is to act as an energy storage device so that the clock can run for relatively long periods of time unattended.
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The 8 day weight driven movement strikes one stroke every hour and has a matching antique style weight and pendulum.
In 1656 the dutch scientist christiaan huygens built the first pendulum clock.
On some clocks serving the same purpose meaning a large dial in the instance i m trying to describe the difference can be huge.
This was a great improvement over existing mechanical clocks.
Weights can vary by large amounts.
Their best accuracy was improved from around 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day.
Pendulum clocks had to be stationary and level to operate.
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A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum a swinging weight as its timekeeping element.
There are some variants of pendulum clocks such as the aptly named 400 day clock or anniversary clock which runs for a year before needing to be rewound.
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From its invention in 1656 by christiaan huygens until the 1930s the pendulum clock was the world s most precise timekeeper.
The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator.
Pendulums spread over europe as existing clocks were retrofitted with them.
As we will see in a moment the clock uses that.
