Advances in European Mechanical Clock Technology (c. 1406)

Name: Advances in European Mechanical Clock Technology (c. 1406)
Start: 1405
End: 1410

Type Event Region Europe Time 1405–1410

In the early 15th century, European municipal and monastic clock towers steadily improved mechanical clocks, refining escapements, striking, and astr…

Timeline

1405–1406Paris and surrounding towns · FranceTown clock towers in France and the Low Countries commonly installed weight-driven mechanical clocks, striking the hours to serve civic life and commerce and promoting the formation of a public sense of time.
1406–1408Southern Germany and Northern Italy · German cultural sphereClockmakers' guilds improved escapement and gear train designs, increasing timekeeping stability; some large clocks began to incorporate astronomical dials showing the positions of the sun and moon and information from the church calendar.
1409–1410Padua and Bologna · ItalyAstronomical clock projects serving both teaching and display purposes appeared around Italian university towns; mechanical timekeeping and the needs of astronomical observation mutually reinforced each other, paving the way for more complex astronomical clocks later in the 15th century.

Sources

Clock https://www.britannica.com/technology/clock
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World — David S. Landes (1983)