Above: Spring driven pendulum clock, designed by Huygens ... information for the first time ever. While Galileo did not invent the telescope, he greatly improved upon them. Over the course ...

Near the end of his lifetime, Galileo designed the first pendulum clock. Galileo's Telescope ... but others may have beaten him to the actual invention.) Instead, he significantly improved upon ...

Galileo discussed the idea in 1637, and although he died in 1642, the idea lived on. In 1656, Christiaan Huygens invented the very first working pendulum clock, which was both primitive and ...

Whether it's the clock on our living room wall or the ... understanding of history might claim that it was Galileo Galilei who invented this device. After all, he was just as well known for ...

The pendulum clock (conceived by Galileo, made by Christiaan Huygens ... is so important and why it’s one of man’s greatest inventions in the video below. Well worth the watch (heh).

10 Galileo never succeeded in building a pendulum clock. 11 Turned on by math and accepting a ... balls off the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prove them. 14 He didn’t invent the telescope, either—he got ...

"Galileo's Battle for the Heavens." The first telescopes, invented in 1608, consisted of two simple concave and convex lenses. When placed at a specified distance apart from one another ...