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Ancient civilizations rely on the movement of celestial bodies to determine time broadly defined by planting seasons and harvest times. 3500 AC - first sundials built in ancient Egypt after they were imported from Babylon. 325 AC - water clocks are invented by the Greeks.
Ancient civilizations rely on the movement of celestial bodies to determine time broadly defined by planting seasons and harvest times. 3500 AC - first sundials built in ancient Egypt after they were imported from Babylon. 325 AC - water clocks are invented by the Greeks.
Ancient civilizations rely on the movement of celestial bodies to determine time broadly defined by planting seasons and harvest times. 3500 AC - first sundials built in ancient Egypt after they were imported from Babylon. 325 AC - water clocks are invented by the Greeks.
Early AC: Most ancient civilizations rely on the movement of celestial bodies to determine time broadly
defined by planting seasons and harvest times.
3500 AC First sundials build in ancient Egypt after they were imported from Babylon, with many ancient structures were built to mark the passage of time and determine arrival of planting seasons and harvest times.
2000 AC Creation of Stonehenge (prediccion de solsticios/estaciones). Circa 2000 BCE: Stonehenge; Ancient Egyptian Sundials
1500 AC: The Chinese and Egyptians develop simple sundials; easy to build, so a huge variety evolves all over the world during this time period.
1400 AC Some cultures mark the passage of time by measuring time it takes to burn oil, incense and candles. Creacin de la clepsydra (reloj de agua) de los egipcios
742 AC First archeological proof of sun dial existence.
325 AC: Water clocks are invented by the Greeks.
300 AC First simple transmission gears created by Archimedes.
300- 330 NE Introduction of sand glass clocks.
885 Candles with time markings introduced to the medieval Europe. Alfred the great used candles as "clocks."
1092 First mechanical water clock created by Chinese innovator Su Sung.
1275: The mechanical clock is invented in England.
1334: An astronomical clock is introduced by Jacopo di Dondi in Padua (Italia) 1335: another clock, with a mechanism that strikes a bell to mark the hours, is completed in 1335 in Milan; 1364: and a third, which tracks hours, the sunrise, and the days of the month, is built by Giovanni de Dondi in Pavia.
1368- 70: First mechanical clock makers appeared in England. The first mechanical striking clocks appear in France and England.
1400: Blacksmiths begin making clocks with loud bells in them to ring the hours, for use in the hallways of large mansions.
1490 Locksmith Peter Hele invented first mainspring in Nurnburg. Mainspring invented by Peter Hele, or Henlein, a locksmith of Nurnburg. About this time the small domestic, or table clock made its appearance.
16th Century: Iron, a key element in clock design, is pushed aside in favor of brass, bronze, and silver; development of spring-powered clocks.
Early 1500s Appearance of first small domestic (table) clocks.
1510 First mechanical watch created in German cities of Nuremberg by Peter Henlein. These models were either fastened to belts or carried around the neck and they measured only passage of hours.
1530 The oldest surviving mechanical clock.
1540 Screws became used for clocks, enabling much smaller designs that kept time much better than first models.
1541 First public tower clock fixed on one of the towers in Hampton Court Palace, England. An astronomical clock was fixed in one of the towers of Hampton Court Palace. The Swiss watch industry is born. Reformer John Calvin of Geneva bans people from wearing jewelry, altering the future of Switzerland. Geneva's jewelers are forced to learn another craft and are taught the art of watchmaking by refugees from France and Italy.
1574: The first known pocket watch is created, but the inventor remains unknown. The watch, crafted in bronze, depicts Saint George slaying a dragon on the front and the Crucifixion on the back.
1577 - Jost Burgi invented the minute hand, even though 16th century clocks were very inaccurate.
1581 Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo discovered the properties of pendulum. Galileo, Italian Astronomer and Physicist, discovered the properties of the pendulum.
1587 Geneva became home to the thriving watchmaking industry.
1610 Introduction of protection glass on watches. This finally enabled reliable protection of time dials on the portable small watches.
1635 French inventor and clockmaker Paul Viet of Blois introduced first enamel dials.
1657 Famous Dutch physicist Christiaan Huygens created first pendulum controlled clock.
1666 The recoil anchor excapement, possibly invented by Dr. Robert Hooke between 1666 and 1667.
1671 Pendulum clocks received important upgrade with the introduction of pendulum suspension spring introduced by William Clement. Pendulum suspension spring introduced by William Clement. The first known clock with anchor excapement made by William Clement.
1675 Royal Observatory at Greenwich founded. Edward Booth ( Later Rev. Edward Barlow ) invented the Rack Striking Mechanism for clocks.
1676 Famous London watchmaker Daniel Quare introduced to the public concentric minute hand for watches. He also worked on creating repeating watches. The concentric minute hand, with motion work similar to that in use today, was used by Daniel Quare, a famous London maker and others. Daniel Quare also made repeating watches about this time. The Second Hand is introduced.
1680: The first minute hands are added to clocks.
1690: The second hand makes its first appearance on clocks, though the novel idea does not become common practice.
1700: Clock ownership becomes widespread; manufacturers design clocks in all sizes and styles: ranging from grandfather type clocks, called 'longcases', to decorative table clocks adorned with enamel paintings.
1704 - Nicholas Facio managed to pierce rubies and sapphires, using them as a jeweled bearing for balance staff pivots. Nicholas Facio, FRS, a native of Geneva, who settled in London, succeeded in piercing rubies and sapphires for use as jewelled bearing for balance staff pivots.
1715 -20: Englishman George Graham invents the deadbeat escapement, a new type of mechanical escapement that offers greater precision. He also invented the mercurial compensation pendulum.
1725 John Harrison invented the grid-iron compensation pendulum. George Graham invented the cylinder escapement.
1760s Enlightenment era in Europe brought many advances to clock mechanisms. Need for accurate maritime chronometers soon enabled ordinary and cheap watches to become very accurate. This accuracy can be attributed to the inventions of Pierre Le Roy and Thomas Earnshaw who introduced to the public temperature compensated balance wheel.
1765 Centre Seconds hand introduced. "Tell-tale" clocks invented by John Whitehurst, FRS, a celebrated clockmaker of Berby and London. (1713-1788)
1770: Abraham-Louis Perrelet invents a self-winding mechanism. and Jean-Antoine Lepine creates a thinner movement, called the Lepine calibre, enabling watchmakers to make flatter watches that can be carried in "fob" pockets to conceal them from potential thieves. The Lepine calibre is still in use today.
1785 - Josiah Emery improved the design of lever escapement that was first introduced by Thomas Mudge in 1759.
1795: Abraham-Louis Breguet invents the tourbillon escapement.
1812: Breguet creates a watch to fit on a wrist (the first wristwatch), for Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples.
1820: The keyless clock emerges, doing away with the need to use a key for winding or setting.
1822: Nicolas Rieussec files a patent for a "timekeeper or device to measure the distance traveled, called a seconds chronograph". This is the birth of the era of the chronograph, or stopwatch.
1830: Breguet introduces watches equipped with a button for setting the time.
1840 First electric clock was created by Edinburgh clockmaker Alexander Bain.
1858 Association of English clock and watch makers created the British Horological Institute. The British Horological Institute, an association of Clock and Watch Makers for the purpose of advancing the horological art, was founded. "The Horological Journal," the oldest periodical dealing with the craft, was stated.
1865 Georges Frederick Roskopf developed the pin pallet escapement.
1880 G.M.T. became the standard time for the whole of the United Kingdom. Charles R. Sligh forms theSligh Furniture Company. Standardization of time zones.
1884 The meridian of Greenwich was adopted by international agreement as the zero or prime meridian from which the longitude of all places in the world is measured.
1895 First modern electric clock created by Frank Hope-Jones. This clock became base of all modern clocks that are created today.
1900s Clocks and personal watches enter into mass production.
1900 Electric contacts are fitted to a Marine Chronometer for the purpose of impulsing secondary dials.
1904: Santos-Dumont orders wristwatch from Louis Cartier. The original watch is on display at the Paris Air Museum next to the 1908 Demoiselle, the last plane Santos-Dumont built.
1905 Radio time signals became transmitted from Washington DC to help ships find longitude on open seas.
1914: By the end of World War I, wearing a wristwatch is the preferable form of timekeeping.
1916 Introduction of Summer Time.
1918 The alternating current synchronous motor was first applied to clocks by H.C. Warren in the U.S.A., although the principle had been discussed as far back as 1895. Thus came the first "plug into mains" clock.
1921 Study and development of the Quartz Crystal clock commenced by Dr. Warren A. Marrison, F.B.H.I. a Canadian who became an American citizen.
1927 Howard C. Miller starts the "Howard Miller Clock Co." Charles Lindbergh completes the first transatlantic solo flight, from New York to Paris, in 33 hours and 30 minutes while wearing a wristwatch by Longines, the official timekeeper of this historic journey. Shortly after, Longines and Lindbergh develop the Lindbergh Hour Angle watch.
1929: Antoine LeCoultre unveils for the world the smallest mechanical watch movement, the Caliber 101. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
1930: Breitling Watch Company patents the first stopwatch.
1937 Quartz Crystal clocks introduced at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
1945 Physicist Isador was first to suggest that oscillations of atoms (atomic-beam magnetic resonance) can be used to create extremely precise clocks.
1949 First atomic clock created by United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NITS).
1955 Atomic Clock invented by Dr. L. Essen, O.B.E., F.B.H.I. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington. The first Caesium atomic clock, which keeps accurate time to within a few seconds every 100,000 years, is invented by Dr. Essen of the National Physical Laboratory.
1957: America's Hamilton Watch Company produces the first successful electric watch.
1960: Bulova Watch Company builds the Accutron tuning fork watch, which uses an inch-long tuning fork instead of an escapement to power the oscillating circuit.
1962: Rado becomes known as originator of the scratch-proof watch with the release of the DiaStar I, made of hard metal.
1967 Second is formally defined not trough movements of celestial bodies but as 9,192,631,770 vibrations of the cesium atom.
1969: Astronaut Neil Armstrong wears an Omega Speedmaster on his spaceflight to the moon. and Seiko introduces its first quartz-crystal analog wristwatch.
1970: Hamilton Watch Company introduces the world's first solid-state digital quartz-crystal wristwatch prototype. Named Pulsar, it uses LED (light-emitting diode) technology and has a bright red digital readout.
1976 CASIO cre un reloj digital de pulsera con diez funciones adicionales.Cuatro aos ms tarde consigui integrar una calculadora electrnica en un reloj.
1979: The Delirium is introduced as the thinnest watch in the world, measuring 1.98 mm.
1983: Swatch introduces its first plastic Swiss quartz watch, marketing the line as affordable fashion items.
1989: Patek Philippe creates the Calibre 89 to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The watch is deemed the most complicated in the world, with 33 complications, or special features. 1996: The Breitling Emergency watchequipped with a transmitter that broadcasts a distress signal to rescuershelps save the lives of the crew of the Mata-Rangi expedition when their reed raft breaks up in a storm off the Chilean coast.
1997: Guinness World Records announces the Tourneau TimeMachine, on 57th Street at Madison Avenue in New York City, as the world's largest watch store.
1999: Watch brands turn to space-age materials such as titanium and carbon fiber. TAG Heuer launches the Kirium T15, the first sports watch crafted in grade 5 titanium.
Late 1990s Over half a billion watches are sold every year.
2000: Watch companies such as Ulysse Nardin and Patek Philippe begin using high-tech materials like silicon and ceramic in their movements.
2005: Guinness World Records recognizes the Tourneau Time Dome Las Vegas, as the world's largest watch store.
2011: Tourneau Concept Store and Tourneau.com launches.