pendulum clock

Summary

pendulum clock ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (423 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• pendulum clock is credited with the discovery of Christiaan Huygens^[2].
• pendulum clock's image is recorded as Pendule electrique l maitrier 05117.jpg^[3].
• pendulum clock's GND ID is recorded as 4173654-0^[4].
• pendulum clock's subclass of is recorded as timepiece^[5].
• pendulum clock's Commons category is recorded as Pendulum clocks^[6].
• pendulum clock's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 3876^[7].
• pendulum clock's has part is recorded as pendulum^[8].
• pendulum clock's has part is recorded as clock hand^[9].
• pendulum clock's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1656-00-00T00:00:00Z^[10].
• pendulum clock's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/067wf^[11].
• pendulum clock's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pendulum clocks^[12].
• pendulum clock's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.113^[13].
• pendulum clock's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0154171^[14].
• pendulum clock's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok^[15].
• pendulum clock's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[16].
• pendulum clock's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[17].
• pendulum clock's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/ogee-clock^[18].
• pendulum clock's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "ClockPendulum"]^[19].
• pendulum clock's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 49480350^[20].
• pendulum clock's National Historical Museums of Sweden ID is recorded as term/B94D443F-7DA8-4786-9B46-D22B0B640AA1^[21].
• pendulum clock's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as rellotge-de-pendola^[22].
• pendulum clock's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 29294^[23].
• pendulum clock's museum-digital tag ID is recorded as 10197^[24].

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Works and Contributions

pendulum clock is credited with the discovery of Christiaan Huygens^[2]. Things named for it include Horologium^[25], a constellation^[26].

Why It Matters

pendulum clock ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (423 views/month).^[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]

Entities named for it include Horologium^[25], a constellation^[26].