Timeline of time measurement technology
- Timeline of time measurement technology
Timeline of time measurement technology
* 270 BC - Ctesibius builds a popular water clock, called a clepsydra
* 46 BC - Julius Caesar and Sosigenes develop a solar calendar with leap years
* 1000s - Sets of hourglasses were maintained by ship's pages to mark the progress of a ship during its voyage
* 1000s - Large town clocks were used in Europe to display local time, maintained by hand
* 1335 - First known mechanical clock, in Milan
* 1502 - Peter Henlein builds the first pocketwatch
* 1582 - Pope Gregory XIII, Aloysius Lilius, and Christopher Clavius introduce a Gregorian calendar with an improved leap year system
* 1655 - Cassini builds [http://cis.alma.unibo.it/NewsLetter/090496Nw/Heilbron.htm the heliometer of San Petronio] in Bologna, to standardise Solar noon.
* 1656 - Christian Huygens builds the first accurate pendulum clock
* 1676 - Motion works and minute hand introduced by Daniel Quare
* 1680 - Second hand introduced
* 1737 - John Harrison presents the first stable marine chronometer, thereby allowing for precise longitude determination while at sea
* 1850 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison starts in Roxbury, Mass.U.S.A. the Waltham Watch Company and develops the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
* 1884 - International Meridian Conference adopts Greenwich Mean Time for consistency with Nevil Maskelyne's 18th century observations for the Method of Lunar Distances
* 1893 - Introduction by Webb C. Ball of the General Railroad Timepiece Standards in North America: Railroad chronometers
* 1928 - Joseph Horton and Warren Morrison build the first quartz crystal oscillator clock
* 1946 - Felix Bloch and Edward Purcell develop nuclear magnetic resonance
* 1949 - Harold Lyons develops an atomic clock based on the quantum mechanical vibrations of the ammonia molecule
* 1982 - The Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH is founded by the merger of two previous organisations
* 1983 - Radio-controlled clocks become common place in Europe
* 1994 - Radio-controlled clocks become common place in USA
*1999 - Launch of data clock for measurement societal time and design of timescapes
ee also
* History of timekeeping devices
* Clock
* Watch
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