The,History,Clock,Making,the,B DIY The History of Clock Making to the Building of the Cuckoo Cl

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Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable{mso-style-name:"Table Normal";mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;mso-style-noshow:yes;mso-style-priority:99;mso-style-qformat:yes;mso-style-parent:"";mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;mso-para-margin-top:0cm;mso-para-margin-right:0cm;mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt;mso-para-margin-left:0cm;line-height:115%;mso-pagination:widow-orphan;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}Thefirst known clock dates back to around 3500 BC and were called sundials. Alarge circular plate was placed on the ground with a long arm protruding fromthe center of it. The sundial would track the movement of the sun to tell thetime of day.About1400 BC the Egyptians invented the water clock by pouring water from onecontainer to another container which would cause a dial to move indicating whattime of day it was.Thefirst spring wound powered clock was built about 1500 AD by Peter Henlein inGermany. His new design could be made smaller enabling people to put them onthe table or mantle above the fireplace. This type of clock was more accuratein keeping time than any of the previous clocks made.In1656 Christian Huygens a Dutch inventor built the first pendulum clock. Hisidea had a swinging weight or pendulum which became the time keeping element ofhis clock. To make his clock more accurate he introduced the second hand to gowith the minute and hour hand.Inthe early 1700's a peddler from the German town of Triberg in the Black Forestregion brought back a clock from the land of Bohmen which is now the CzechRepublic. This was when the first cuckoo clock was introduced into the region.The clock makers of this region of the Black Forest started building thisstyle.Thesefirst cuckoo clocks were very primitive in design with wooden toothed gears andsimple stones as weights. A piece of wood called a waag was used as thependulum above the clock dial which moved back and forth to keep time. All thewood that was used in the cuckoo clock came from the lime tree or linden treewhich is in great abundance in the Black Forest region. The lime tree was usedfor building the cuckoo clock.Overthe long winter months around the German Black Forest region when the farmerswere snowed in they made these cuckoo clocks. They produced many differentstyles of cuckoo clocks, hand crafted with different scenes on the face of theclock. Many of these scenes were from the Black Forest region.Aroundthe middle of the 1700's history relates two different variations of the BlackForest cuckoo clock origin. The first is by Father Franz Steyres who relates ameeting between two clock peddlers from the town of Furtwangen in the BlackForest region and a Bohemian merchant who sold wooden cuckoo clocks. The twoclock peddlers liked the clock and took it back home. The peddlers showed theclock to the clock makers around Furtwangen and they began reproducing thisclock.Thenext variation is by Father Markus Fidelis Jack who said that the cuckoo clockwas invented by a clock maker from Schonwald Germany in the Black Forestregion. His name was Franz Anton Ketterer. This clock maker installed a movingbird on a clock that announced the hour with a cuckoo call. He said that FranzAnton Ketterer got the idea of the cuckoo call from the bellows of a churchorgan. Franz Anton Ketterer designed a system of small bellows and whistlesthat imitated the cuckoo's call. His clock was composed of an almost squareboard for the face of the clock and a raised semi circle on top of the board.The cuckoo was located behind a small door in the semi circle.Thelast variation by Father Markus Fedelis Jack has become the more popularversion of the beginning of the Black Forest cuckoo clock. When people talkabout the origin of this clock Franz Anton Ketterer of Schonwald Germany is thefounder. Article Tags: Black Forest Region, Franz Anton Ketterer, Cuckoo Clock, Black Forest, Forest Region, Cuckoo Clocks, Franz Anton, Anton Ketterer