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What is the purpose of mechanical clock?

The purpose of all clocks (e.g. mechanical clock, water clock, electronic clock, atomic clock) is to measure the passage of time.


What is the difference between mechanical clock and atomic clock?

Atomic clock is faster than mechanical clock and it is the most accurate of all clocks in the world.


What is a spring powered clock?

A spring powered clock is a type of mechanical clock that uses a mainspring as its energy source. The mainspring is wound up manually, usually with a key, and as it unwinds it powers the clock's movement, causing the hands to move and the clock to keep time.


What is an anolog clock?

A clock with hands, and mechanical workings.


What is the chemical name for an alarm clock?

An alarm clock does not have a chemical name. It is a mechanical or electro-mechanical device.


What is ancient china mechanical clock?

Mechanical clock was important to china becausse it helped them be able to use time than the dials....


How is energy stored in a clock?

The energy stored in the clock is in the form of elastic potential energy of its coiled spring .The spring is coiled by winding the clock.


Who made the early mechanical clock?

The Dutch


What energy transformation takes place in a mechanical clock?

In mechanical clock, when spring is revolved, it becomes a potential energy. when spring is released, it will converted in to kinetic energy, so that the hand of the clock is rotated.


When was the first mechanical clock made in ancient china?

the first mechanical clock was made in 723 A.D. by a buddhist monk named Yi xiang


What is a clock?

A mechanical or electronic device that displays the time.


What Chinese dynasty was the mechanical clock invented?

Tang