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Well, no doubt many folk observed the swinging of a pendulum, for they are not uncommon even in nature. Huygens is credited with realizing the concept of a pendulum could be used to create a clock mechanism. This is particularly true for a small amount of swing. This discovery is sometimes credited to Galileo, but though he noticed that the length of pendulums (in his case, swinging lamps in the church!) was one variable of the time of the swing, he did not conceive of a clock mechanism.

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