ESA European Space History - On this day: 16 June 1657, the first pendulum clock was patented by its inventor, Dutch physicist, mathematician and astronomer Christiaan Huygens. Although others had worked in
Salomon Coster the clockmaker of Christiaan Huygens. Clock.
Huygen & Coster Making Clocks (Illustration) - World History Encyclopedia
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English: Drawing of the first pendulum clock, designed by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1657. Huygens contracted his clock designs to clockmaker Salomon Coster of The Hague, who actually built the