When you wind a weight driven clock you pull on a cord that lifts the weight.
Pendulum wall clock with huygens 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.
History of the pendulum clock a pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum a swinging weight as its timekeeping element.
It was published posthumously in 1698.
Weights can vary by large amounts.
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From its invention in 1656 by christiaan huygens inspired by galileo galilei until the 1930s the pendulum clock was the world s most precise timekeeper accounting for its widespread use.
In 1656 the dutch scientist christiaan huygens built the first pendulum clock.
This timepiece has cable wound precision movement with an automatic beat adjustment feature and maintaining power.
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I ve got one clock in for repair that uses a bob name of pendulum weight under 10 and another from a different maker at around 100.
The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator.
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.
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This clock is a weight driven wall clock and is named after the empress elisabeth amalie eugenie of austria.
Pendulums spread over europe as existing clocks were retrofitted with them.
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It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length and resists swinging at other rates.
The golden age of the pendulum clock.
Huygens died at home in the hague on july 8 1695.
This was a great improvement over existing mechanical clocks.
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On some clocks serving the same purpose meaning a large dial in the instance i m trying to describe the difference can be huge.
From its invention in 1656 by christiaan huygens until the 1930s the pendulum clock was the world s most precise timekeeper.
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Their best accuracy was improved from around 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day.
As we will see in a moment the clock uses that.
The english scientist robert hooke studied the conical pendulum around 1666.
The pendulum clock arguably was the first experimental.
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Huygens s clocks revisited american scientist 90 july august 2002.