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3500 BC(E): The obelisk is created by Egyptians, and possibly previously by Sumerians
1500 BC(E):
500 - 100 BC(E):
30 BC(E): Vitruvius describes 13 different types of sundial styles in Greece, Asia Minor, and Italy[1]
1 BC(E): Andronikos constructs the Horologion, the "Tower of the Winds" in Macedonia, Athens Marketplace
200 - 1300 CE(AD):
1300 CE(AD): Mechanical clocks appear in Italian cities, in towers.
1500 - 1510: Peter Henlein of Nuremberg invents the spring-powered clock.
1525:
1582: Galileo creates the pendulum-clock concept, but wasn't able to build it before his death.
1656: Christiaan Huygens (Dutch) invents the hair-spring, about the same time as Hooke from England
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- ↑ Earliest Clocks. National Instute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Retrieved on 2008-01-29.