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Wrought Iron Clocks and Calendar Controversy

The first gear clocks appeared sometime in 1300. A swinging foliot was controlling a verge escapement. A striking train would ensure the striking of the hour. Pope Gregory XIII adopted 1582 an improved calendar. Protestant countries initially resisted using the "Papist" calendar. That is why both calendars were in use over a long period of time.

Clockmaker's workshop. Woodcut by Jost Amann, 1568 (Archive German Clock Museum)[Close][Open]
Iron gear clock with striking train and alarm. Unknown maker, c. 1550 (Inv. K-1279)[Close][Open]
Iron gear clock with striking train and alarm. Erhard Liechti, Winterthur (Switzerland) 1584 (Inv. 31-0581)[Close][Open]
Iron gear clock with striking train and alarm. Unknown maker, 17th century (Inv. 31-0677)[Close][Open]
Tower clock movement. Unknown maker, probably Southern Germany 18th century (Inv. 1995-555)[Close][Open]
Sentence of the Supreme Court concerning the new calendar. Speyer 1584 (Library German Clock Museum)[Close][Open]
Proposition for a "finally joined calendar". Hamburg 1686 (Library German Clock Museum)[Close][Open]
Interdiction of commerce with foreign calendars. Breslau 1741 (Library German Clock Museum)[Close][Open]
Everlasting Calendar. Schoebel, Leipzig 1756 (Inv. 2006-008)[Close][Open]
New calendar for the third year of the French republic. With table for conversion into decimal time. Nuremberg 1795 (Library German Clock Museum)[Close][Open]

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