In 1787, American Levi Hutchens created a mechanical alarm clock with the specific purpose of waking him up every day at 4 AM. He never patented this creation, however. Also, you couldn’t change ...

The first mechanical alarm clock was invented by Taqi-al-Din of the Ottoman Empire in 1559. But the patent holder for the above clock was French inventor Antoine Redier in 1847.

People of Islamic cultures, Rooney says, used water clocks to track prayer and fasting, whereas Christians developed the mechanical clock in 14th-century Europe as a way to schedule prayer.

Levi Hutchins wanted to get up before dawn, at a set time every morning. 4 a.m., to be specific. So the clockmaker created America’s first mechanical alarm clock in 1787, crafted out of one of ...

We have no idea who invented the first mechanical clock, for example— verge-and-foliot clocks spring up in medieval Europe, and spread rapidly across the continent, but there’s no clear record ...

1. We do not know who first invented the clock. Of course, the same goes for many other venerable inventions—the originators of writing, paper, movable type and cast iron are similarly obscure ...

The clock is known as a Postman's Alarm. It is decorated with a painted hunting scene and dates from the 1840s. It chimes on the hour and has an 8 day movement. The chains and weights would hang ...

The mechanical clock was not invented until the 13th century and it was driven by weights. The spring-driven clock was invented sometime around 1450 AD. — Samir Cassim Ariff, Kolkata ...