Who created the first clock?

Answer 1

The clock is the oldest invention of man, the first clocks were sundials, candles and hour glasses.

Water clocks existed in Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, India, and China, with a general time frame of 1500 to 3000 BC.

So as you can see not one particular person invented the clock, they just improved it from sundials and candles to water clocks to mechanical clocks to nuclear clocks to digital clocks, etc. There are over 50 different types of clocks.

Answer 2

Depends on what you mean by a clock.

Romans had a clock that used dripping water, though sundials had been used previously.

Greeks had an analog calculator to predict tide levels, which implies they might have had mechanical clocks, though knowing the precise time of day wasn't really a big deal until very recently.

Stonehenge was used to determine the best time for planting, maybe that counts as a clock.

Answer 3

Alexander James Clock

Answer 4

Devices for keeping track of time -- from the sundial to the waterclock-- go back many millenia. But what you're probably thinking of is the MECHANICAL clock, a device. Though we do not know an individual inventor of "the first clock" of this sort, the evidence is rather clear that such devices began to appear in the 13th century. Follow this link for details and later developments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock#A_new_mechanism

(Incidentally, "clock" has nothing whatsoever to do with anyone's name. The word is from Latin for "bells", referring to the fact that these devices caused bells to chime at regular intervals to indicate the time.)

Answer 5

As unbelievable as this may sound I read about this in a book titled, "Strange Name Origins of Everyday Inventions" by Mark Delaney (Penguin Press, 2002)

The modern working clock was invented in 1123 by an Englishman named Jimmy Clock.

Answer 6

I'm not sure but the Chinese did develop a mechanical clock but I'm not sure how long ago that was.

Answer 7

The Aztecs had sun-dials.