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Pendulum wall clock with huygens weight.
A pendulum so long as the weight is all in the bob at the bottom while air resistance temperature.
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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.
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.
History of the pendulum clock a pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum a swinging weight as its timekeeping element.
Their best accuracy was improved from around 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day.
The pendulum clock arguably was the first experimental.
It swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length and resists swinging at other rates.
In 1656 the dutch scientist christiaan huygens built the first pendulum clock.
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The english scientist robert hooke studied the conical pendulum around 1666.
This was a great improvement over existing mechanical clocks.
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.
When you wind a weight driven clock you pull on a cord that lifts the weight.
Weights can vary by large amounts.
The golden age of the pendulum clock.
Pendulums spread over europe as existing clocks were retrofitted with them.
That gives the weight potential energy in the earth s gravitational field.
As we will see in a moment the clock uses that.
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It was published posthumously in 1698.
On some clocks serving the same purpose meaning a large dial in the instance i m trying to describe the difference can be huge.
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Huygens died at home in the hague on july 8 1695.
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This clock is a weight driven wall clock and is named after the empress elisabeth amalie eugenie of austria.
The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a harmonic oscillator.
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Pendulum clocks had to be stationary and level to operate.
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Huygens s clocks revisited american scientist 90 july august 2002.
A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum a swinging weight as its timekeeping element.