name the scientist who was experimenting and observation with various pendulum structure lead to the development of the first pendulum clocks
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The Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens invented a clock controlled by the motion of a pendulum in 1656.
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Christiaan Huygens was the scientist were experimenting and observation with various pendulum
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- Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist and inventor, created the first pendulum clock in 1656. It was patented the following year.
- Salomon Coster, a clockmaker, was hired by Huygens to build his ideas for clocks, and Coster created the clock in question.
Observations that lead to the development of pendulum clock
- Huygens was motivated by Galileo Galilei's pendulum research, which he began in about 1602.
- Isochronism, or the fact that a pendulum's period of swing is roughly the same for swings of all sizes, is the main characteristic that makes pendulums ideal timekeepers, was discovered by Galileo.
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