In the United States, the land of opportunity, where anyone could aspire to anything, large-scale clock production began in the mid-19th century with the aim of putting a clock in every home. The days when private mechanical timepieces were the exclusive domain of the wealthy and powerful were gone; no […]
Before the advent of mechanical clocks, other methods of measuring time were used in ancient times. Incense clocks were most likely first developed in the Far East. Any time measurement system requires a reference phenomenon that occurs with maximum regularity. This could be a spring unwinding, a weight falling or […]