Sentence examples for mechanical clock from inspiring English sources

In a single line of evolution, Su Song's clock therefore united the concept of the clepsydra and the mechanical clock into one device run by mechanics and hydraulics.

The mechanism that Mr. Parmigiani patented in 1993 predates another Muslim calendar mechanical clock made by the Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin and patented in 2006.

The thing looked like some sort of mechanical clock.

For centuries afterward technological achievements could be measured by the evolution of the mechanical clock.

The Enlightenment philosophers argued that just as the universe, once set in motion, acts automatically like a well-balanced mechanical clock, so too does the marketplace.

It does, however, have its own ceiling art: a mechanical clock by the architect Maya Lin, near the stairs to Tracks 20 and 21.

In the 11th century, Chinese inventors and engineers invented the first mechanical clocks driven by an escapement mechanism.

The first mechanical clocks, employing the verge escapement mechanism with a foliot or balance wheel timekeeper, were invented in Europe at around the start of the 14th century, and became the standard timekeeping device until the pendulum clock was invented in 1656.

The clock tower featured large astronomical instruments of the armillary sphere and celestial globe, both driven by an early intermittently working escapement mechanism (similarly to the western verge escapement of true mechanical clocks appeared in medieval clockworks, derived from ancient clockworks of classical times).

Al-Muradi's work was known to scholars working under Alfonso X of Castile, hence the mechanism may have played a role in the development of the European mechanical clocks.

In 1599 1600 he traveled to Constantinople, delivering a mechanical clock-organ to the sultan; his diary of this journey was published in 1893.