[DOC] [TLE] Pendulum clock - Wikipedia [PAR] A pendulum clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its 
timekeeping ... invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the 
pendulum clock ... Clockmakers' realization that only pendulums with small 
swings of a few .... in 1721, which was used in precision regulator clocks into the 
20th century. [DOC] [TLE] Christiaan Huygens - Wikipedia [PAR] Christiaan Huygens, FRS (Latin: Hugenius) (14 April 1629  8 July 1695) was a 
prominent ... Christiaan Huygens was born on 14 April 1629 in The Hague, into a 
rich and ... Through Pierre de Carcavi Huygens corresponded in 1656 with Pierre 
de Fermat, whom ...... Going Dutch: How the English Plundered Holland's Glory. [DOC] [TLE] The Galileo Project | Science | Pendulum Clock [PAR] Galileo's discovery was that the period of swing of a pendulum is ... years after 
the publication of Christiaan Huygens's Horologium , in which Huygens 
described... [DOC] [TLE] christian huygens, the pendulum and the cycloid - Horology - The ... [PAR] In December 1656, Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens [1] .... 
Galileo could have maintained the swing of a pendulum by impulsing it with his ... 
kept a seconds pendulum going for 24 hours, counting 87,998 oscillations. ..... 
say that seven such clocks are known to have survived into the twentieth century. [DOC] [TLE] Dead Reckonings  The (Not So) Simple Pendulum [PAR] Nov 19, 2007 ... One thing that surprised me when I encountered it is that the escapement ... It 
was Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) who built the first pendulum clock as we ... 
has a wide swing to accommodate as in Huygens' first clock). .... LM as the arc 
length AF, divided into as many parts as points marked off on AF. [DOC] [TLE] Irregular Webcomic! #3341 [PAR] Jul 20, 2014 ... The rising and setting of the sun breaks human time into parcels we call days and 
nights. The nights are dark and humans like to shelter and get sleep during ... 
Galileo also determined that the timing of the swings did not depend on ... of a 
turning gear, Christiaan Huygens built a clock in 1656 with a gear... [DOC] [TLE] 1st pendulum clock patented, June 16, 1657 | EDN [PAR] Jun 16, 2016 ... Huygens studied the relation of the length of a pendulum to its ... He developed a 
prototype for the clock by the end of 1656 and ... or bob, to swing along the arc of 
a cycloid rather than that of a circle. ... Accidental engineering: 10 mistakes 
turned into innovation ... 10 things you may not know about Tesla. [DOC] [TLE] Resonances, waves and fields: The pendulum clock [PAR] Mar 18, 2011 ... The pivot point is stationary while the bob swings back and forth as indicated ... 
has a hook on its end that fits into the notches in the escapement wheel. ... In 
1656, 74 years after Galileo's work, Christiaan Huygens, a well know ... By 
adding the pendulum to the prior verge-and-foliot clocks, Huygens added... [DOC] [TLE] How to Determine the Age of a Grandfather Clock | Home Guides ... [PAR] Grandfather clocks, also called longcase clocks by horologists, were invented 
after Dutchman Christiaan Huygens applied a pendulum as a clock-winding 
device in 1656. ... escapement -- the mechanical device that gives a pendulum its 
swing. ... adding their initials or signature to the clock face, which narrows the 
clock's... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Christian Huygens" - Internet Archive [PAR] In Astronomy Huygens explained the appearances of Saturn, until 1656 the 
greatest ... Huygens's Clock as the centre feature of a design showing scientific 
.... glimpse: Huygens and Newton getting into a stage coach at seven o'clock on a 
.... early work of Christian's and he saw that great things might be expected from 
this... [DOC] [TLE] Keeping time  Science Features (ABC Science) [PAR] Dec 18, 2008 ... In 1656 Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens took Gallileo's principle of ... 
Atomic clocks measure time by tracking the magnetic spin of caesium atoms

Question: Christiaan Huygens got into the swing of things in 1656 by adding this to the clock
Answer: Pendulum