Does Anyone know who who ACTUALLY Invented the First CUKKOO Clock?and when?

Question

A question about a well-known Bird used in telling the time(i.e in clock's

Answer 1

why cukko indeed?
you would think a rooster would be first choice

Answer 2

In 1629, many decades before clockmaking was established in the Black Forest, an Augsburg nobleman by the name of Philipp Hainhofer (1578-1647) penned the first known description of a cuckoo clock. The clock belonged to Prince Elector August von Sachsen.

In a widely known handbook on music Musurgia Universalis (1650), the scholar Athanasius Kircher describes a mechanical organ with several automated figures, including a mechanical cuckoo. This book contains the first documented description -in words and pictures- of how a mechanical cuckoo works. The bird automatically opens its beak and moves both its wings and tail. Simultaneously, we hear the call of the cuckoo, created by two organ pipes, tuned to a minor or major third.

In 1669 Domenico Martinelli, in his Handbook on elementary clocks Horologi Elementari (1669), suggests using the call of the cuckoo to indicate the hours. Starting at that time the mechanism of the cuckoo clock was known. Any mechanic or clockmaker, who could read Latin or Italian, knew after reading the books that it was quite doable to have the cuckoo announce the hours.

Subsequently, cuckoo clocks appeared in regions that had not been known for their clockmaking.

A few decades later, people in the Black Forest started to build cuckoo clocks.

Answer 3

In the year 1737, the first Cuckoo Clock was developped by Franz Ketterer, a clockmaker in the city Schoenwald in the Black Forest

Answer 4

Charlie Cukkoo the cukkoo clock chandler,
Around 1875.
The story goes that he invented the clock but did not have a name for it and at the exact same time he was interviewing some staff for his house. He asked a woman what are you known as and she said "Cook" to which he then said "Cook who" ??? and so it stuck

Answer 5

Haven't got a clue but my brother got me a Ewe-coo clock for christmas. It works on the same principle as a cukkoo clock but a sheep pops out and 'baahs'.
Just thought i would share that with you! :o)

Answer 6

Philipp Hainhofner...........1578 - 1647

Answer 7

Tells you here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_clock

Answer 8

blackforest i think but they ther best