According to Altas Obscura’s neat and nifty “2,000-Year History of the Alarm Clocks,” Chinese inventor Yi Xing was one of the first people to invent a gadget similar to what we’d call an ...

Though there were water clocks (invented by the Greeks in 250 BC), striking clocks were invented by the Buddhist monk Yi Xing (in the 6th century). The first mechanical alarm clock was invented by ...

A Loftie alarm clock review, ... Yi Xing, a Buddhist mathematician and monk invented a mechanical clock that, through a system of wheels, locks, and rods, ...

Skip forward a few hundred years to around 725, when Buddhist monk and polymath Yi Xing created another water-based contraption with gongs that went off at certain times.

The mechanical clock is an invention we all use today. According to historical research, the world's first clock was invented by Yi Xing, a Buddhist monk and mathematician of the Tang Dynasty (618 ...