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Definition of Pendulum clock
1. Noun. A clock regulated by a pendulum.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pendulum Clock
Literary usage of Pendulum clock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"The possibility of the pendulum clock dates from the time of Galileo, who first
showed ... But the practical inventor of the pendulum clock was Huyghens, ..."
2. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"This was the invention of the pendulum-clock (made 1656, patented in 1657).
It has been already mentioned how the same discovery was made by ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"The development of the pendulum clock dates from the time of Huyghens, ...
Prom that time until the present the perfecting of the pendulum clock has ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... yet bis discovery was the prelude to a third aora in clock-work. namely, the
origin of the pendulum-clock, which continues in use to the present time, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by George William Cox (1866)
"Richard Harris is said to have constructed, in 1641, a pendulum clock in London
for the church of St. Paul, Covent Garden. ..."
6. A Treatise on Astronomy for the Use of Colleges and Schools by Hugh Godfray (1886)
"The same artifice will clearly apply to the pendulum clock, but during the time
of re-winding the clock ..."
7. Treatise on Clock and Watch Making: Theoretical and Practical by Thomas Reid (1832)
"That because a pendulum clock was not known in France before the year 1660, it
is not likely that it could have been applied any where else, for any length ..."
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