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Pendulum Wall Clocks

   
Pendulum wall clocks have been around for hundreds of years and today the range of pendulum wall clocks has increased to include both traditional pendulum wall clocks to designer and more modern pendulum wall clocks.

A pendulum wall clock is a clock that uses a pendulum, a swinging weight, as its timekeeping element. The advantage of a pendulum for timekeeping is that it is a resonant device; it swings back and forth in a precise time interval dependent on its length, and resists swinging at other rates. From its invention in 1656 by Christiaan Huygens until the 1930s, the pendulum wall clock was the world's most precise timekeeper, accounting for its widespread use. Pendulum wall clocks must be stationary to operate; any motion or accelerations will affect the motion of the pendulum, causing inaccuracies, so other mechanisms must be used in portable timepieces. They are now kept mostly for their decorative and antique value.

In electromechanical pendulum wall clocks such as used in mechanical master clocks the power source is replaced by an electrically powered solenoid that provides the impulses to the pendulum by magnetic force, and the escapement is replaced by a switch or photo detector that senses when the pendulum is in the right position to receive the impulse. These should not be confused with more recent quartz pendulum wall clocks in which an electronic quartz clock module swings a pendulum. These pendulum wall clocks are very accurate because the timekeeping is controlled by a quartz crystal in the module, and the swinging pendulum is merely a decorative simulation.

Pendulum wall clocks are very popular because apart from telling the time, the pendulum motion of the wall clock and the wide range of designs means that they make great decorative wall clocks homes.  There are a wide range of pendulum wall clocks and some of the most popular pendulum wall clocks include:

• Wooden pendulum wall clocks
• Traditional Pendulum wall clocks
• Designer pendulum wall clocks
• Modern pendulum wall clocks
• Quart operated pendulum wall clocks
• Chiming Pendulum wall clocks

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