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Keeping time is an essential activity for our daily life; and it is almost as old as human civilization. Throughout history, people have invented many ways to keep time, from analemmatic sundial to atomic clock. The invention of mechanical watch and clock is a milestone of technology advancement.
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Du, R., Xie, L. (2013). Introduction. In: The Mechanics of Mechanical Watches and Clocks. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29308-5_1
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