Timepieces could now be made small enough to stand on a table instead of hanging on a wall, and for the first time could be moved around while they were going. Although flat pieces of steel had been used as springs in locks for many centuries, the invention of the spiral coiled flat spring in the 15th century meant that a spring could be used to drive the mechanism instead of weights. The manufacture of clocks in England was commenced during the fourteenth century by three horologists from Delft in Holland to whom Edward III granted license in 1368 to come and practise their occupation.įor some two hundred years, clocks were driven by falling weights. At some stage dials and hands were added to indicate the time, with a chapter ring marking out the hours.
They were weight driven mechanisms, and as time went past smaller versions started to be made for use in houses. Their purpose was to sound the canonical hours, the times during the day at which prayers were said. These were usually installed in towers, and used bells to sound the hours, hence the name "clock" from the Medieval Latin word clocca (bell). Mechanical clocks appeared in Europe during the thirteenth century. The Earliest Watches Copyright © David Boettcher 2006 - 2021 all rights reserved.
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