The Arsenal had been a place of practical invention and innovation ... it was in 1641 while under house arrest that Galileo created a design for a pendulum clock. Unfortunately, being blind ...

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 ... either—he got the idea from a Dutch spectacles maker who had invented a spyglass. (He was the first to ...

(The invention of the first simple telescope is traditionally credited to German-Dutch lens maker Hans Lipperhey in 1608.) Galileo had fancied creating his own small telescopes, and thought he ...